They may be able to automate changing the code to a fancier language - that's the "easy bit"
I can see the problems occurring when they run both systems in parallel for 6 months, and try to find the cause of the two systems giving different results - this is the hard bit. I remember having problems when we changed the version of the compiler... it exposed a timing window - and this was on the same code base! This situation is when you need tracing etc in the programs, which you will not from the automatic conversion. Colin On Fri, 4 Apr 2025 at 18:03, Mark Regan < [email protected]> wrote: > This might wrap for some of you. > > > https://www.computerworld.com/article/3953741/doge-wants-to-modernize-social-securitys-legacy-tech-what-could-possibly-go-wrong.html > > Regards, > > Mark Regan > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
