Scott, that's easy. They obviously want more money to modernize and they needed an easy scapegoat. I'd like to know more about how COBOL is inherently less secure than a modern language subject to the plague of hacks that beset the distributed environment. Our state agencies regularly go to our legislature asking for money to replace their antiquated and vulnerable COBOL systems even though those systems have been reliably and securely doing their intended jobs. Inevitably the new systems are the ones that get in the newspaper.
Hmm...I just noticed the quote my kookie jar picked for this email. It seems appropriate. -- Donald Grinsell State of Montana 406-444-2983 [email protected] "The power of accurate observation is often mistaken for cynicism by those who have not got it." ~ George Bernard Shaw -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Scott Ford Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2015 4:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Setting the writers right Charles, I read the article, I said "what does COBOL have to do with Security"? Scott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
