I dare say it probably makes more sense to use COBOL over Java to "add up a column of numbers". 😊 ________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Larre Shiller <00000102cb4997b0-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2018 3:54 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: The IRS Really Needs Some New Computers
On Tue, 17 Apr 2018 19:19:07 -0700, Ed Jaffe <edja...@phoenixsoftware.com> wrote: >On 4/17/2018 3:55 PM, Edward Gould wrote: >> >> I can’t speak to the IRS but the Social Security system (last I heard) was >> *WAY* out of date by at least 20 years (maybe more). Can anyone verify (or >> not), please? > >SSA runs one of the most sophisticated data centers of any government >agency I've seen. > >They own all the latest kit and participate in nearly every z/OS ESP. I >know this for FACT! > Gee, thanks Ed...! It's certainly not easy managing 150,000MIPS of WebShpere on Z, let alone the 150,000 GP MIPS of "everything else". And speaking of IT modernization efforts, I thought that this was rather timely and informative: https://federalnewsradio.com/it-modernization-month-2018/2018/04/social-security-on-schedule-to-modernize-it-systems-by/ ...it's a 20 minute listen, but it gives you a good idea as to where we are and where we are headed in the future. I guess you could get into a discussion about what we are running that is "out of date", but certainly our IT infrastructure is *not*. Are 40 year old COBOL programs "out of date"...? Well... they may have some "technical debt" associated with them and sometimes maintaining them can be challenging, but does it really matter if I'm running a COBOL or a JAVA program to add up a column of numbers? Larre Shiller US Social Security Administration “The opinions expressed in this e-mail are mine personally and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the US Social Security Administration and/or the US Government.” ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
