ToldYa!
Posted on 04/05/2020 9:49:43 AM PDT by fuzzylogic
That’s what the State’s Governor, Phil Murphy, apparently meant today, when he said at a press conference that the State needed volunteers who with “Cobalt” computer skills to help fix 40-year-old-plus unemployment insurance systems that are currently overwhelmed as a result of COVID-19-related job losses.
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Any takers Freeper's?
This is what happens when you don't maintain systems!
Not me. I’m and RPG guy
I think I used COBAL on a Univac 55 back in 1968 or so.
I used to know COBOL. Let me see if i still have an old manual...
There is still a boatload of COBOL code out there, especially in the banking industry, and the old programmers are retiring and younger ones have no idea how to code in such an environment
I knew COBOL, I forgot it all.
This sounds racist against RPG, MUMPS, Fortran, Algol and Snobol.
All 3 of my children know the Program. One in particular would remember it.
No short term fixes.
Long term strategy:
1) End the H1B visas. No more foreign programmers.
2) Raise salaries of US programmers.
3) Update SW at the unemployment offices, the power companies, the IRS, and a host of other areas.
We have a lot of whizz-bang stuff, but the nation is a lot more fragile than some people think, and IT is really NOT a good career field — too much foreign competition, lots of age discrimination, and the salaries, while OK, are not nearly what they should be.
Maybe in 1984 I could have helped them out....
But software coders that are retired or nearing retire who want a nice contract for a short period of time can make some good money...
As others have said, the kids doing coding now know nothing about Cobol and there is a ton of it still out there..
ToldYa!
I don’t think any Universities teach that and haven’t taught it in like 20 years. I took COBOL in College in the Mid 1980’s, most of the COBOL programmers working today are all in their 50’s and 60’s, many have retired as most organizations have moved away from it. There may be still some Systems still using COBOL, but those are being phased out.
New Jersey... Governor, Phil Murphy... said at a press conference that the State needed volunteers who with “Cobalt” computer skills to help fix 40-year-old-plus unemployment insurance systems that are currently overwhelmed as a result of COVID-19-related job losses.
Cobal is still the system used by many government systems over C++ and Visual Basics.
I’ll be surprised if they don’t fill the slots with H1b visa holders from, India. They’ll have guaranteed employment.
rwood
DQ8J!
lol - RPG :) Haven’t heard anyone even say that in decades!
If your solution is to fix a 40 year legacy program to interact with modern systems recently built the truth is, you don’t actually have a solution.
My old job still has plenty of COBOL code, I think on an AS400 system. The two remaining COBOL programmers right before I left told me that for the past 15 years they have tried to get the company to move away from it. I asked why they can’t get rid of it and he replied that Boomer department directors (no offense Freepers) refused to abandon what they are used to. They told me the code was originally donated to my old company back in the late 1980’s and they kept it going over the years. Well, one of the programmers retired in 2018 and the other is in his mid-60’s and told me recently he’s retiring within a couple of years.
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