On 23/03/2019 10:23 am, JLWhitaker wrote: > > I'm also wondering about the software and languages. Are we talking > COBOL and others still? > It's not the programming language that counts it that the environment that guarantees transactions - In the case of IBM it's call CICS (Customer Information Control System) which supports on-line transaction processing. It makes sure that when you move money from one bank account to another it either complete of fails - there is no other outcome.
This is very difficult to do in a distributed environment. COBOL was a transaction based system used for batch record processing. There is so much COBOL around that it is cheaper and better to keep it - it is fit for purpose, more so than any other language. -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: [email protected] _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
