As computers grew in speed and capability, a number of general-purpose database systems emerged; by the mid-1960s a number of such systems had come into commercial use. Interest in a standard began to grow, and Charles Bachman, author of one such product, the Integrated Data Store (IDS), founded the "<answer>Database Task Group</answer>" within CODASYL, the group responsible for the creation and standardization of COBOL. In 1971 the <answer>Database Task Group</answer> delivered their standard, which generally became known as the "CODASYL approach", and soon a number of commercial products based on this approach entered the market.
What group discovered COBOL?
Database Task Group