Re: Some COBOL Links

[Bob Bridges]

Am I being unnecessarily cynical to wonder about the risk of taking on new 
COBOL programmers who "volunteer" to help the state remediate applications that 
hand out money?

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I agree, a systematic assessment of the issues should pre-empt acquiring a 
programming army, unless its really the programs that need to be changed.  
Their issues could be ranging across a whole swath of issues.  their challenges 
do sound like they would be a bit of fun to understand and remediate as needed.

> --- On Apr 8, 2020, at 7:25 PM, Reg Harbeck  wrote:
> While I still think the governor of New Jersey probably should be looking at
> a capacity increase before tempting Brook's Law by adding programmers to a
> project that is already behind the eight ball,

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Re: Some COBOL Links

[Matt Hogstrom]

I agree, a systematic assessment of the issues should pre-empt acquiring a 
programming army, unless its really the programs that need to be changed.  
Their issues could be ranging across a whole swath of issues.  their challenges 
do sound like they would be a bit of fun to understand and remediate as needed.

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> On Apr 8, 2020, at 7:25 PM, Reg Harbeck  wrote:
> 
> While I still think the governor of New Jersey probably should be looking at
> a capacity increase before tempting Brook's Law by adding programmers to a
> project that is already behind the eight ball,


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Some COBOL Links

[Reg Harbeck]

While I still think the governor of New Jersey probably should be looking at
a capacity increase before tempting Brook's Law by adding programmers to a
project that is already behind the eight ball, since we all have the
opportunity to defend COBOL to people who are temporarily listening, here
are some links that may be of use:

 

https://www.planetmainframe.com/2019/08/cobol-still-the-best-for-new-high-vo
lume-applications-after-all-these-years/ 

 

https://ibmsystemsmag.com/IBM-Z/05/2019/cobol-turns-60 

 

https://ibmsystemsmag.com/Trends/09/2019/captain-cobol-tom-ross 

 

https://ibmsystemsmag.com/Trends/11/2019/michelle-yeager-hayley-owens-cobol

 

https://ibmsystemsmag.com/Trends/10/2019/ray-mullins

 

https://community.ibm.com/community/user/ibmz-and-linuxone/blogs/destination
-z1/2019/12/23/genealogy-of-cobol-and-hlasm

 

Reg Harbeck

403-605-7986

 


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