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Not affiliated, just found it fun that there are modern-looking COBOL training sites out there

I work for an investment bank and we still upgrade COBOL to the new version every couple of years, surprisingly it's still actively maintained and getting updates. Sometimes I like to sit behind one of the mainframe grandpas and watch him work on his 16-colors 24x80 characters IBM Host On-Demand terminal, it's very calming.

Not only that, there are also (more or less) modern-looking COBOL IDEs: https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/products/visual-cobol/overv... - and I guess the courses offered by the company are centered on their own IDE, hoping to boost its sales?

Absolutely, MicroFocus wants to be kings in this space.

If one wants to learn I'd usually suggest the yearly Master the Mainframe by IBM, but I'm not sure they are running one this year. If you want to work with cobol you'll probably be dropped on a Z/OS or AS400 machine or some OS owned by HP and that's what you'll spend 99% of your time learning.

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