Re: ComputerWorld Says: Cobol plays major role in U.S. government breaches

All, What type applications are they, up in the article referring to ? CICS or DB2 or ? Scott On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 4:57 PM Charles Mills wrote: > Sad but true. > > > > Charles > > > > > > -Original Message- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Can SMPPTS datasets be consolidated?

On Fri, 17 Mar 2017 22:00:52 +, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: >Pretty sure I used to do exactly this for the same reason Mark does. However, >now SMPPTS% is all PDSE, compression becomes a non-issue. The system knows > not to try compressing SMPPTS%, so it does not need

Re: ComputerWorld Says: Cobol plays major role in U.S. government breaches

Sad but true. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Bill Woodger Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2017 8:54 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ComputerWorld Says: Cobol plays major role in U.S. government

Re: ComputerWorld Says: Cobol plays major role in U.S. government breaches

Well said on all counts Bill. Original Message Subject: Re: ComputerWorld Says: Cobol plays major role in U.S. government breaches Local Time: March 18, 2017 10:54 AM UTC Time: March 18, 2017 3:54 PM From: bill.wood...@gmail.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU My gosh, ho-hum,

Re: ComputerWorld Says: Cobol plays major role in U.S. government breaches

My gosh, ho-hum, what a bag of nonsense passing itself off as a contribution to research. And then there's the journalism. Tom Marchant phrased it eloque... well, bluntly. The researchers who wrote the paper, dated March 7, 2017, used a media article to come up with "It's COBOL wot dun it"