Raul's spreadsheet has a link to its parent report: https://www.vita.virginia.gov/media/vitavirginiagov/it-governance/ea/pdf/Legacy-IT-Solutions-Topic-Report.pdf (2019) …which states:
*Agencies are not allowed to use Prohibited technologies without an approved EA Exception. These technologies are no longer supported by the commonwealth and they represent substantial risk. Any use of Prohibited technologies must be mitigated by: (etc, etc.)* (…my underline) So it seems "prohibited" just means that if you're an agency of COV (Commonwealth Of Virginia) you have to report you're running a prohibited system and make the case to carry on using it past Jan 1 2024. In the light of the growing ransomware threat, that seems a pretty generous let-out clause. I'm struck by the fact that the sole "prohibited" APL is IBM APL2. Now IBM no longer owns APL2, and presumably no longer supports it. I guess if you're a COV agency you'd be hard-pressed to find someone under 70 who could fix a bug in your APL2 legacy system, let alone secure it to approved standards. But if your little "black-box" system is written in APL*PLUS or APL+Win (both still widely used commercially in the USA), it's okay, huh? On Sun, 19 Dec 2021 at 08:16, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 19, 2021 at 2:31 AM John Baker <[email protected]> wrote: > > How about we just prohibit the morons that create such lists. > > If only it were that easy... > > -- > Raul > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
