What's new in IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS 6.4 (03:23)

New features and enhancements in IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS 6.4.

Published: 5 April 2022

What's new in IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS 6.3 (04:04)

New features and enhancements in IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS 6.3.

Published: 12 Sep 2019

What's new in IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS 6.2 (04:05)

New features and enhancements in IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS 6.2.

Published: 5 Dec 2017

Part. 1: Why You Should Migrate (03:16)

Watch Roland Koo (Offering Manager for IBM Enterprise Products and Compilers on z/OS) explaining why you should migrate to the latest COBOL 6.

Published: 7 Feb 2020

Part. 2: How to Migrate (04:18)

Watch Tom Ross (Captain COBOL) describe how you can migrate to the latest COBOL 6.

Published: 7 Feb 2020

Enterprise COBOL for z/OS Migration Webinar (1:33:08)

Mike Chase (IBM COBOL expert) talks about the latest IBM recommendations and best practices to help with your migration to Enterprise COBOL 6.

Published: 12 April 2022

Enterprise COBOL for z/OS Performance Tuning Webinar (1: 30:00)

Mike Chase (IBM COBOL expert) introduces how to take advantage of advanced optimization technology in the Enterprise COBOL 6 compiler to increase the performance of your business-critical applications and reduce CPU usage.

Published: 19 April 2022

JSON support in IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS (04:45)

Get an overview of JSON support with the Enterprise COBOL for z/OS 6 compiler.

Published: 16 Nov 2017

Debug Non-Optimized and Optimized COBOL Programs with IBM Debug for z Systems (21:51)

Demonstrates debugging COBOL programs using IDz, particularly for optimized programs including those optimized with ABO.

Published: 19 April 2022

IMS programming structure within a COBOL program (46:16)

IBM developer Irina introduces you to IMS programming structure within a COBOL program as well as the basics of IMS environment and system components.

This is one of the "COBOL Fridays webcast series" videos. To find more COBOL videos in this series, visit the IBM Developer website.

Published: 21 Aug 2020

How to Identify Top CPU Consuming COBOL Modules (05:28)

Learn how to optimize your COBOL applications to significantly reduce CPU consumption, processing time, and operating costs.

Published: 19 Dec 2018

Overview of IBM Automatic Binary Optimizer for z/OS (ABO) (01:51)

An overall introduction about ABO, which improves the performance of already-compiled COBOL program modules without recompiling, source code migration, or performance.

Published: 11 Nov 2016

IBM Automatic Binary Optimizer for z/OS Trial Cloud Service Demo (03:00)

A series of videos introduce how to use ABO trial on the cloud at no charge. In this video, learn how to identify modules to be optimized by ABO.

Published: 17 Jan 2020

IBM InterConnect 2017 with Armin Kramer, DATEV (08:16)

Armin Kramer from DATEV shared their migration of COBOL 4.2 to 5.2 to gain performance improvements of the payroll system.

Published: 4 Apr 2017

COBOL 6.2 Migration Concerns and Use of the Automatic Binary Optimizer (ABO) (1:01:26)

Ed Steele (IBM Technical Special) and Zvi Weiss (Certified IT Specialist) talk about COBOL migration history, benefits, and best practices, and they will show you some examples of using invalid data and what happens with COBOL 6.

Published: 18 Aug 2018

Using the IBM z14 to maximize performance of your COBOL applications (48:33)

Roland Koo (COBOL Offering Manager) talks about using IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS 6.2 and IBM Automatic Binary Optimizer (ABO) 1.3 to exploit the IBM z14 hardware and gain performance boost, and the benefits of using Enterprise COBOL 6 and ABO together.

Published: 1 March 2018

COBOL performance and optimization (1:03:48)

Reid Copeland (IBM Senior Technical Staff Member) reviews optimization techniques from both the source and the compiler point of view, as well as how the latest IBM mainframe features are leveraged for improved performance.

This is one of the "COBOL Fridays webcast series" videos. To find more COBOL videos in this series, visit the IBM Developer website.

Published: 10 July 2020

What's new in COBOL for z/OS since 4.2 - COBOL Treasures (58:39)

Tom Ross (Captain COBOL) gives an update on the world of COBOL, including the latest features, migration, and performance.

This is one of the "COBOL Fridays webcast series" videos. To find more COBOL videos in this series, visit the IBM Developer website.

Published: 19 Jun 2020

New Compilers Designed for Modernizing Business Critical Applications (34:37)

Roland Koo (COBOL Offering Manager) talks about how the latest compiler technologies, COBOL, ABO, PL/I, C/C++, and Node.js can help you modernize core applications, develop new digital experiences quickly and at low cost, and most importantly, increase application performance on the latest IBM Z

Published: 24 Oct 2019

Increase performance of COBOL applications with Automatic Binary Optimizer (47:37)

Roland Koo (COBOL Offering Manager) introduces IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS 6.2 and the benefits of staying current with COBOL. As a complementary product for COBOL. This video also introduces IBM Automatic Binary Optimizer (ABO) 1.3, and how ABO can increase the performance of your COBOL applications and help with COBOL migration..

Published: 1 June 2018

The latest IBM Z COBOL compiler: Enterprise COBOL for z/OS 6.2 (52:21)

Tom Ross (COBOL Captain) talks about the new features and enhancements in Enterprise COBOL for z/OS 6.2, including new and changed COBOL statements and options, and new features added from the COBOL 2002/2014 standards.

Published: 13 Aug 2018