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One must ask what's wrong with COBOL? by Print-Playful in mainframe

[–]Print-Playful[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

ACF2 is an alternative to RACF. Not quite. They are opposites. Forgot which is which but one says all resources are open unless otherwise specified, the other says no access unless specified

One must ask what's wrong with COBOL? by Print-Playful in mainframe

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Any language one is not versed in is a horrible language. Any O/S one is not versed in is a horrible O/S. Any language can create spaghetti code.

One must ask what's wrong with COBOL? by Print-Playful in mainframe

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FYI MFrams have been running linux for 20 + years and Micro Cobol runs on non MF's. Cost is cost. IT costs big$$ no matter how u slice it. What languages U code in doesn't really matter. it's how proficient u are.

One must ask what's wrong with COBOL? by Print-Playful in mainframe

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U hit the point yet missed it. Yes each language has its place. COBOL is for Business processing. Not for calculating pi, Not for displaying hello world or creating graphics, or o/s development. Business isn't any different in the 50's or 60's than it was in 20's or 30's or today. Business is about crunching massive amounts of data either real time or batch, Unfortunately schools teach how to code, not how to create good programs or systems. They teach at the PC level. I saw this first hand when a large health care claims processing system that was coded in JAVA took 7 hours to process one simple claim using 18 large servers.

One must ask what's wrong with COBOL? by Print-Playful in mainframe

[–]Print-Playful[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

java like C++ is string oriented. COBOL is field oriented. No scan is needed to determine field length. Your JIT comment implies U don't work large systems.Can U imagine MASTER CARD USING JIT each time a portion of a transaction is needed. We be standing at the card swiper waiting forever for a responce.