Upgrading Legacy Cobol

Question

I keep reading about how much Cobol code is still in production. And the main reason it has not been updated to a more modern language is because it is too long or too expensive.

My question is: if there was a tool that converted Cobol, say, to Java, would any organizations be useful? Or would they rather continue to support what they already know?

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