Questions tagged [cobol]
For questions about the COBOL programming language
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What was COBOL's syntax first described in?
Nowadays, it's very common to use BNF (or extensions thereof) to describe the syntaxes of various programming languages or their constructs. What was the situation like 60+ years ago? COBOL and BNF ...
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How can there be so much "business logic" for a company that they cannot drop their old COBOL/mainframe code? [closed]
Something which has always confused me is this. I keep hearing about how these big, old corporations which were around in the 1950s (for example) and early on started using COBOL-coded business logic ...
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How to handle multiple stories with changes on the same big Cobol program/module in a Scrum Sprint
How to handle multiple stories with changes on the same big Cobol program/module in a Scrum Sprint without ending in a mini-waterfall at the end of the Sprint?
The risk is that the development sub-...
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Cobol programs and copybooks versioning
in java we have ivy, maven and others for handling library dependencies. For example I tell ivy that my program uses a framework-jar version 1.0 and ivy makes sure, that my program gets this jar when ...
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Best solution for a large database transaction
I have a COBOL CICS process running on a mainframe legacy system. The process does over 2K DMLs in a highly concurrent DB environment. After each CRUD operation, the result is used to make further ...
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COBOL & Mainframe & Business [closed]
I have made a search on a Hong Kong job seeking website. There numerous of jobs titled "Computer Analyst". These are the requirements of the job:
Over 3 year experience relevant working experience in ...
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Feasibility of continuous delivery with a mixture of development platforms
What are the major obstacles (and potential solutions, if known) for implementing "continuous delivery" software development when an application relies on varied programming languages or modules... ...
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Having 2 Initialize Paragraphs in 1 COBOL program
I am designing a COBOL program that does 2 things.
1 reads specific rows from a table, and inserts a new row based on the original.
2 reads different rows from the same table, and updates those rows.
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COBOL program or JCL? [closed]
I have to perform 3 tasks:
an insert, a delete, and a write
I'm not sure what the best way to do this is. My mainframe program design skills aren't too tight, so I was looking for advice.
Could I ...
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What's new in PL/I, DB2, and S/390 assembler?
I have an upcoming technical interview with a former employer that will focus on PL/I, DB2, and ISPF. The job will be with systems that I architected and wrote myself 20 years ago. The few years of ...
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What are the three main technologies for a redesign of a COBOL legacy system
There exists an application that reports financial data of a bank to a national bank (all located in Europe). It is a legacy system that is written mainly in COBOL. Only the user interface is written ...
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Worth it to Learn an Archaic Language? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is COBOL still worth learning?
One of my better college professors often talked about the advantages of learning an archaic language (COBOL or SAP ABAP for example) in one's ...
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Are 70% of programs/business applications/something based in COBOL? [closed]
I heard this number and a quick google search reveals a whole lot of touting this number and absolutely zero data (honestly most articles promoting COBOL read like 95% propoganda). Perhaps it's true ...
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Why the scorn for COBOL? [closed]
When people mention COBOL, it's usually either met with a snort or groan. I don't know much about COBOL, but I've seen some programs written in it. I can see that it's wordy, and to uninitiated eyes ...
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Rewriting IBM assembler + COBOL in C++
I work as a rental agent / manager for a car rental company that is running on a rental system that was written in 1972. I decided that maybe it was time for an update. For a bit of background, here ...
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