| The application was developed from 1982 to 1984, with approximately 1600 mandays, completely in COBOL and contained approximately one million lines of code. |
| Acucorp's support for 64-bit SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 on IBM eServer zSeries further enhances its market-leading offering as the enterprise COBOL of choice on Linux. |
| Ivory supports data conversions from COBOL COMP-3 packed decimal to and from the standard XML schema decimal data types. |
| In terms of specific legacy knowledge, COBOL and mainframe skills are likely the most common requirements. |
| With an estimated 200 billion lines of COBOL still in use, COBOL is generally accepted as the predominant language of business applications. |
| The environment division is the link between the COBOL program and the computer and input-output devices the program uses. |
