Conspicuously missing from the coverage is any evidence of delays or outages attributable to COBOL code running on mainframes. So far the stories I've seen turn out to relate to web servers or manual processing, not to the back end. Yeah, there could be issues with, e.g., CICS transactions written in COBOL, but none of the stories provide any reason to believe that to be the case.
More disturbing is the assumption that if they train hordes of COBOL programmers and bring all of the applications written in COBOL up to date, their troubles will be over. The elephant in the room is all of the code in other languages that has also been allowed to languish. It *all* needs to be documented and brought up to snuff. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Mark Regan [marktre...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2020 12:21 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: What crashing COBOL systems reveal about applications maintenance -- GCN https://secure-web.cisco.com/1Ck2hssvPisqB8qyqrPsKlWMSh6SVj36qT95iEGNsvW41QGGjEH5TGYkmfjBEBCwAqsZp1UH2qlJxAPV-nlun5Dg56JO8lyf2QqkfAQDmic0ch6e5uj8J9A-Q3B3We8shuckCRr_XeQmGMDhXgd8TQyRlLdXH9bKy-iCiUCWHj2Kqen8MgwZNhQmpmPDXCZynS12e9_NREBCyJ-ImKut7vZYA4mccK38-ps5r3DJciC05kNl8kmdPhUg60gd1zZz7JURnW9weaJQKKDRSp57OBFh-n49E04rQSKCcaRjfOb7cGMU1n6iqgjTNOpmxmuPIjDr4aGw9aUMm9k3V6bRy75OJLSewcdQoYLb3wcGP1Iff-nYxUbFk8wp8l3lc_AhRdjTQ-059TNEsAQTLJUnMUEkSHuyT9PtOAgQrQdm_g-sdoO8Y415VmGflAy_9xBgfqdVJiOoYQb3UbkX7P6tc_A/https%3A%2F%2Fgcn.com%2Farticles%2F2020%2F05%2F12%2Fkeeping-mainframes-up-to-date.aspx%3Fm%3D1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
