I was in the US ARMY in Europe in the early 1970's.
We were developing a COBOL based system that was entirely COBOL
except for some BDAM DB access that was needed. The only assembler
was an ONLINE system that could be used to gain access to the online DB.
The system was to be used world wide (once it was chosen).
Unfortunately the cost of 360/50's was to high and instead a DOS
based system was chosen.
AFAIK the mandate was COBOL through out (except some BDAM and online)
the system was met.
I also did some assembler coding but it could have been replaced by
IBM utilities but it would have been cumbersome.
Ed
On Jul 29, 2015, at 1:01 PM, Gerhard Adam wrote:
"*The Department of Defense even decreed that all businesses must
run on COBOL in the 1960s.*"
A ludicrous assertion.
Actually not ludicrous. This occurred when I was in the military
(1973) and was definitely an objective. The goal was that all
applications would be written in COBOL. The only exceptions were
programs that couldn't achieve their function.
As a result, I was responsible for writing a number of access
method interfaces [because we used a customized BDAM type of
structure] so that COBOL programs could call these routines to read/
write records.
Definitely true.
Adam
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