[Default] On 18 Apr 2018 02:53:35 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main [email protected] (Larre Shiller) wrote:
>On Tue, 17 Apr 2018 19:19:07 -0700, Ed Jaffe <[email protected]> >wrote: > >>On 4/17/2018 3:55 PM, Edward Gould wrote: >>> >>> I cant 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 *WAY* out of date by at least 20 years (maybe more).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programs "out of date"...?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? If you are interested in efficiency and the COBOL program has decent record definitions, I would guess that it will do far better than JAVA. Has anyone coded programs in COBOL and JAVA to do the same thing and compare them for CPU and IO consumption? Also have they verified the results are the same? Clark Morris > >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 [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
