COBOL is primarily used in business, finance, and administrative systems for companies and governments. COBOL is still widely used in applications deployed on mainframe computers, such as large-scale batch and transaction processing jobs.

Why is COBOL still popular?

Built for business and, of course, the Mainframe

The approach of taking data, ingesting it into the mainframe computer, having that mainframe process the data and then get the output from it, is still the dominant use case for many COBOL applications. They run as a “job” either scheduled or on-demand.

What is COBOL programming language used for?

COBOL is a programming language that is mainly focused on solving a business problem. Full form of COBOL is Common Business-Oriented Language. It is primarily used in company and government business, finance, and administrative systems. This language also used as a solution to many data processing problems.