- Year 2000 Parable - http://www.stokely.com/lighter.side/y2000.parable.html
Humorous tale of a Y2K COBOL consultant who has himself cryogenically frozen in order to avoid the Big Day.
- COBOL Center - http://www.infogoal.com/cbd/cbdhome.htm
Dedicated to COBOL and to those with an investment in it. Many Internet sites have information on COBOL, but this site assembles it so you need not search the whole Web to find it. Practical help is here: standards, programming, reengineering, tools, skill improvement, sample code, jobs.
- COBOL Portal - http://www.cobolportal.com/
resource site for Cobol developers. Cobol related news, programming tips, resources and everything Cobol.
- Allexperts COBOL Q&A - http://www.allexperts.com/getExpert.asp?Category=1443
Volunteer experts answer questions about programming in Cobol for free.
- COBOL Jobs - http://www.coboljobs.com/
Job listing service for COBOL programmers.
- Murach's Structured COBOL - http://www.murach.com/books/cobol/index.htm
New single volume release of the classic COBOL book series written by Mike Murach.
- COBOL Programmers Back In The Game - http://www.itworld.com/Career/1944/ITW0319weinstein/
ITWorld.com - You're wrong if you think COBOL programmers are doomed to go the way of the Edsel. COBOL developers who know the Internet can write their own job ticket.
- What Is COBOL? - http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,289893,sid9_gci213863,00.html
Definition of COBOL (COmmon Business Oriented Language), the most popular and widely-used business programming language today in terms of running programs.
- Hello World Program - http://www2.latech.edu/~acm/helloworld/cobol.html
COBOL source code for this traditional, beginner's programming exercise.
- COBUG: COBOL User Groups - http://www.cobug.com/
A COBOL website portal. References to COBOL software, sample code, jobs, and other COBOL programming resources.
- COBOL: IBM Technical Help Forum - http://www.tek-tips.com/threadminder.cfm?pid=209
Tek-Tips IBM COBOL technical support forum. Mutual help system for computer professionals.
- The SimoTime COBOL Connection - http://www.simotime.com/indexcbl.htm
Find out how to do bit-manipulation, display a field in hex-dump format, access a parameter provided from JCL and other tricks. It is all done in COBOL and the source code may be downloaded.
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