There is one thing that COBOL does very well and that has kept it around longer than one would expect. The one thing that COBOL does well is volume processing. A lot of very big companies and firms use it to process a lot of data. The Social Security Administration currently has about 60 million lines of COBOL in production, and the US Navy and the Internal Revenue Service still use COBOL.
What happens when we need to access COBOL programs in a more modern architecture? What happens we we have to move a function that has been performed by a COBOL program in house for years?
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