Yes, I work both as a COBOL programmer and as a programmer of COBOL (direct on GnuCOBOL, with testing and some input to GCC COBOL and indirect in the ISO COBOL Development Group on the COBOL standards).

@ellyse7777.bsky.social What about your plans to go on until you possibly get a COBOL related job, working from home?

Will you work on your COBOL skills, now that you can edit them locally and upload/compile/run them to the mainframe using the CLI parts you've learned?

Nice that you also provide PeerTube. If you reorder the links, then people are more likely to have a look at the video there and also have it shown in the preview.

This makes me wonder what language(s) you are targeting (Japanese, perhaps?) - and what your Duo ID is...

and possibly with a try to get it run on z/OS using IBMs learning environment soon github.com/meyfa/CobolC...

Looks a lot easier than the first ones ;-)

"Feel proud for a job well done."

I'm looking forward to seeing you master COBOL next... or the first steps. I'm sure you'll find some nice features as well.

Maybe the video should be renamed "COBOL Mainframe Online course traumatized me" :-)

If you just want to run COBOL online: godbolt.org/z/WhTrxfdGh (two free COBOL compilers doing the compile and execution)

I do and am fixing a COBOL program which is about dynamic data-caching for a bank which runs GnuCOBOL on GNU/Linux while watching the rest of your video :-)

There are definitely jobs for COBOL on distributed systems, too.

Checkout superbol.eu/gnucobol/gnu... for documentation, as well as "HelloWorld" + "worldcities" from sourceforge.net/p/gnucobol/c... to dive into using it and learning about COBOL in general.
As you work locally "no mainframe required" you may use any editor - superbol.eu#solutions-su... for vscode.

In case you want a different (non mainframe) perspective: have a look into #GnuCOBOL, you can `apt/yum/... install gnucobol` in most distributions (including WSL) and also get Windows binaries, for example from superbol.eu/developers/w... (English version available as well).

What happened between Part 1 (all data sets returned an error) and Part 2 (around minute 96 of the video) where you seem to work on those and also do COBOL the first time [just restarting vscode, possibly]?

Hi Ellyse - I really felt sorry for you watching your first steps.

I totally can see why you were frustrated with the course document not matching the current Zowe extensions and with also learning vscode and "more about mainframes" (while you originally wanted to learn COBOL).