'I can see the problems occurring when they run both systems in parallel for 6 months...'
Why assume they will run both systems in parallel for 6 months? -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Colin Paice Sent: Friday, April 4, 2025 12:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: DOGE wants to modernize Social Security’s legacy tech — what could possibly go wrong? – Computerworld CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the Texas Comptroller's email system. DO NOT click links or open attachments unless you expect them from the sender and know the content is safe. 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://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww. > computerworld.com%2Farticle%2F3953741%2Fdoge-wants-to-modernize-social > -securitys-legacy-tech-what-could-possibly-go-wrong.html&data=05%7C02% > 7Cmichael.watkins%40CPA.TEXAS.GOV%7C118691511d17473e764908dd739c5d3d%7 > C2055feba299d4d0daa5a73b8b42fef08%7C0%7C0%7C638793837587325501%7CUnkno > wn%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXa > W4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=VhPt8pUvSYb > XmxnY54eZbVr8BIOdf6WRSVNbCYEl5qk%3D&reserved=0 > > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
