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Featured Topic: Application Development on the z/OS using COBOL

Tom Ross is a senior software engineer in COBOL development. Tom has spent his entire 23-year IBM career in COBOL development, working on the compiler and run-time libraries for every release of Enterprise COBOL for z/OS, VS COBOL II, COBOL for OS/390 & VM, and IBM COBOL on AIX, Windows and OS/2. He is an expert in migration issues for COBOL and Language Environment for z/OS and VM. He is a frequent speaker at user groups and is the IBM representative to SHARE for the COBOL Project. Tom grew up in Los Gatos, Calif. and earned a bachelor degree in computer science from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1982.

He started his love affair with IBM on Valentine's Day, 1983.

Featured Topic: Recovering COBOL or Assembler code

Fred Brandes The founder of SRC and the inventor of its technology, Fred Brandes has been a software developer since 1979. Fred has been a systems programmer and software developer with companies such as AT&T, Applied Data Research, and Computer Associates. In 1989, he founded The Source Recovery Consultants, evolving to The Source Recovery Company. The patented technology, ReSource, was formally announced in 1996. The Source Recovery Company (SRC) has recovered thousands of COBOL and Assembler MVS programs since its inception.