About

The owner is a thirty+ year veteran of mainframe information technology, from back when it was called “data processing”. His degree is “Bachelor of Science in Business Data Processing”.

He’s designed and coded programs in COBOL 74, 85, and COBOL II on a variety of IBM and Amdahl mainframe boxes from the 370 to the 3033 to the modern zOS systems.

He remembers clearly the days when such things had to be done by hand on coding sheets, then keypunch operators would key and punch the card deck for him.  And he rejoiced when TSO and Roscoe became available for programmers to use.

He’s worked in a vast variety of locations and types of companies, including automobile manufacturing, telecommunications, MIS, cellular billing, petroleum, insurance, chemical, paper manufacturing/distribution, utilities, engineering, and grocery, spanning the country from Colorado to Kentucky, and from Cincinnati to New Orleans.

He’s designed and coded just about as many PL/1 programs as he has COBOL, and actually prefers PL/1 if he has a choice.

He’s used the MARK-IV (now called Vision Builder by CA) reporting language (that a lot of programmers have never even HEARD of, let alone used) for well over fifteen years.

In other words, this guy is a typical grey-haired computer programmer geek.

The site will feature news, articles, and links about COBOL specifically, but will also have some general mainframe articles/links, and even some CICS, IMS DB/DC, DB2, and PL/1 stuff, too.

Oh, by the way, the green text on the MainframeCOBOL site is supposed to invoke fond memories of the old IBM 3278/3290 dumb terminals, where the only color choices you had were green.