I'm not necessarily arguing for leaving the Mainframe, but cleaning up the dungheap of COBOL is long overdue and now *is* the time for that. Accenture is only a company you hire if you want an offshore entity to cook your books while you bankrupt your stockholders. Accenture is just another batch of MBA salesmen, out to plunder anything that's good or decent in the world.
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 9:52 AM, McKown, John <john.mck...@healthmarkets.com > wrote: > Well ..., if somebody really wanted to do this, then I'd really recommend > the CobolRecordGenerator that comes with z/OS Java SDK (written by the > geniuses at Dovetailed Technologies - yes, I'm impressed). Compile your > COBOL with ADATA. Use the aforementioned program to read the ADATA and > create a Java class with get and set methods to access the fields defined in > your COBOL program. I've used the AssemblerRecordGenerator to generate 433 > Java classes to access 76 different SMF records. It was a bit confusing to > this Java novice to learn how to properly use this, but it works for me. > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of > Scott [sc...@aitrus.org] > Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 11:30 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: Now is time for banks to replace core system according to > Accenture > > With a cheaper job market, now is the time to hire hands to go through your > massive libraries of copy-and-paste COBOL and begin some initial > design/development of Java libraries. > > Scott > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
