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? Sent from my iPhone — small keyboarf, fat fungrs, stupd spell manglr. Expct mistaks > 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 > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of > Mark Regan [[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2020 12:21 PM > To: [email protected] > 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 [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
