--- title: Convert COBOL Easily? Yes, Please! | daily.dev description: IBM is offering an AI tool to convert COBOL to Java for a Linux LPAR/VM. The long-term implication of AI-assisted conversion is that we won’t have to. Think... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/convert-cobol-easily-yes-please--2uwnew8mw twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Convert COBOL Easily? Yes, Please! | daily.dev og:description: IBM is offering an AI tool to convert COBOL to Java for a Linux LPAR/VM. The long-term implication of AI-assisted conversion is that we won’t have to. Think... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/convert-cobol-easily-yes-please--2uwnew8mw og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/2uWneW8MW.png og:image:alt: Convert COBOL Easily? Yes, Please! og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Convert COBOL Easily? Yes, Please! **[DevOps.com](https://daily.dev/sources/devops)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary IBM is offering an AI tool to convert COBOL to Java for a Linux LPAR/VM. The long-term implication of AI-assisted conversion is that we won’t have to. Think about it: We could feed in a mathematical routine in Fortran and get the language of our choice out the other side. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#devops](https://daily.dev/tags/devops), [#fortran](https://daily.dev/tags/fortran), [#ibm](https://daily.dev/tags/ibm), [#infrastructure](https://daily.dev/tags/infrastructure), [#java](https://daily.dev/tags/java), [#linux](https://daily.dev/tags/linux) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/convert-cobol-easily-yes-please--2uwnew8mw) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Convert COBOL Easily? Yes, Please!","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/convert-cobol-easily-yes-please--2uwnew8mw","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/convert-cobol-easily-yes-please--2uwnew8mw"},"datePublished":"2023-08-30T11:36:04.693Z","dateModified":"2026-04-10T02:12:39.375Z","description":"IBM is offering an AI tool to convert COBOL to Java for a Linux LPAR/VM. The long-term implication of AI-assisted conversion is that we won’t have to. Think...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/a2f72b68bcbd962f9a24483845e89ce8?_a=AQAEufR","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/a2f72b68bcbd962f9a24483845e89ce8?_a=AQAEufR","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"DevOps.com","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"DevOps.com","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/db8f2265cff0416c878c6e7e92bb8715","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/devops"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/convert-cobol-easily-yes-please--2uwnew8mw","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"devops,fortran,ibm,infrastructure,java,linux","timeRequired":"PT3M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"DevOps.com","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/devops"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Convert COBOL Easily? Yes, Please!"}]} ```