Suppose that they took a group of programmers and got the production online 
programs to all compile with COBOL 6.2 and OPT(1). Would they see a significant 
reduction in MSUs?  Assuming they are running on z14s minimally?

And from that, would they actually be able to do more transactions per hour?

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> On May 13, 2020, at 7:45 PM, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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
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