Joe Kelly has lots of COBOL experience. This episode is sponsored by Smartsheet.

Show Notes:

• Alteryx

• ETL: Extract, transform, load

• Indeed is a site for finding jobs

• The "Y2K bug"

• Various COBOLs mentioned:

  • COBOL 1974, check out Programming Language Standards — Who Needs Them? [PDF]

  • COBOL 1985, check out COBOL Programming

  • Object Oriented COBOL, check out Cobol '97: A Status Report and Object-Oriented COBOL

  • OpenCOBOL which appears to have been replaced by GnuCOBOL

• The IBM 3270 terminal with 80 character-wide screen

• IBM z/OS

• Book: Sams Teach Yourself COBOL in 24 Hours which has a Kindle edition.

• The IBM Mainframes forum

• Joe was kind enough to share his email address in the episode.

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