At 12:46 PM 8/11/2008, David K Watson wrote: ><http://www.sacbee.com/111/story/1132588.html> >"California state computers can't handle pay cut, controller says", > >It turns out that the California payroll system is a legacy >COBOL system being held together with spit and baling >wire.
The article is probably true, but the fix is readily available. There are plenty of competent COBOL programmers out there; it is still widely used. And its source code is ASCII, so a good programmer's editor (Vi, anyone?) with a competent macro language such as The Semware Editor (http://www.semware.com) can change a whole lot of values in a batch run quickly, as long as there is an algorithm to be implemented. Fred Holmes ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
