Posted on 04/05/2020 9:49:43 AM PDT by fuzzylogic
Nothin’ wrong with COBOL.
Good language. First of the structured code formats.
Did lots of it in the 70s. Even a bit of engineering code with it.
Beats the crap out of memory leak C/C+/C-whatever crap. Or all the other little spawns of hell interpreted “languages”.
It’s usually not the language, I agree somebody competent could pick it up...the real problem is understanding the whole system architecture and not breaking it.
Me too. JDEdwards.. AS400
Memory leaks are not the fault of the programming language.
LOL
PERFORM WHAT-THE-F-I-SAY
AS-MANY-TIMES-I-FN-WANT
UNTIL I-FN-WANT-YOU-TO-STOP
END PERFORM
In the meantime the JAVA guys still haven't completed their work. Of course they're smarter than us mainframe dinosaurs.
I work in NJ and guess I could quit and get a cushy government job but don't know if I could work long enough to get the great retirement package.
IBM “main frame” and mid-range computer systems, running CICS & batch Cobol programs against databases. Which started out as the states big systems. Then PC/Networked /client sever & Internet based apps were added with access to those databases. The PC/Networked client server apps and Internet apps generate “transactions” in qeue files that that are polled by batch programs that “officially” update the databases. Likely some state workers still see all of it in COBOL/CICS programs. Now, those databases, and the core programs that keep them updated need revisions for new fields, and functions for new inputs and outputs. Just my guess.
The state should have done as J&J did - turned to IBM business services to BE their computer systems department - equip it, staff it, develop its systems, keep updating it as needs change, choosing the means and methods for those changes, all in a single contract.
I tested the RPG compiler at NCR (San Diego) as summer intern. First job as FORTRAN / COBOL programmer on IBM 1130 machine. Did COBOL at SF Fed Reserve for Y2k. Favorite language was SAS, though. Wrote a SAS program to take a COBOL source code and create a data definition report to hand to designers for documentation.
A crisis like this shows over and over again how inept governments are. Didn't they ever think maintaining, or updating their Unemployment Insurance system was necessary?
I wonder if they are still using 3270s.
Good grief. Is there anything New Jersey is up to date in?
“I am willing to go to great lengths for our nation, but writing COBOL is asking a lot.”
lol....
I suspect that someone who knows SQL could pick up the COBOL vibe pretty quick.
They are also going to use this system to distribute the one time coronavirus payments. So more reprogramming and new system functions for that.
Trump wanted to use the IRS but Dems insisted the states do it.
I did enterprise apps in the 90’s. For the last 20 years it’s been embedded systems, so COBOL isn’t something I’ve been around or even heard much about for a very long time.
Hopefully your system is well documented :)
Did you know REXX is available for Windoze PC?
That's why we liked it.
Hmmm...the D’s insisted? If the insistence was partisan I’d be really curious as to why.
D’s not wanting to move away from a system that handles money...maybe that is the best reason to do so!
Financial systems COBOL programmer on Burroughs/Unisys for over 20 years.
I retired 16 years ago but pretty sure I could walk back into it again.
Not going to NJ though, not for anything.
Bet you could cash in, and they'd be getting a seasoned pro.
New Jersey is a terrible place — and dangerous.
The only way I would ever go there is if they issued me a concealed carry permit before I every went close to the state. And an exemption from whatever roster of allowed weapons they have.
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