COBOL Survey in 2025

Jul 3, 2025

COBOL is a language that already has quite a reputation: critical infrastructures to maintain, major costly strategic decisions, a lack (or even disappearance) of expertise, difficulties in recruitment, …

But it is also a constantly evolving ecosystem. Today, COBOL infrastructures and ecosystems are facing new challenges:

artificial intelligence (what uses and needs?);
open source and dependency on proprietary solutions;
sovereignty;
automatic migration (to which languages?);
modernization of environments and interactions with other systems;
how to regain new skills (is training a hopeful path?).

That’s why OCamlPro, in partnership with La communauté du COBOL, is launching a survey on COBOL in 2025 to provide an overview of its current usage.

The results will be shared by October 2025.

Please complete the survey before July 31.

Link to the survey