On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 09:35:00 -0500, Kelman, Tom <[email protected]> wrote:
>John, > >That WikiPedia article also states that DMSII was created by Burroughs >(later UniSys) as a database to run on its processors. Does that mean >they are still running UniSys machines. If so they have problems over >and above COBOL "not being taught". It sounds like a typical government >non-upgrade environment. Now they are caught in the dark ages and >instead of upgrading to modern DB2 and COBOL on proper processors they >are probably going to "throw out the baby with the bath water" and get >OMG - WINDOWS. > >Tom Kelman Tom: The report was misleading (confusing) in many ways in that it talked about all of the government. The specific department involved here regarding DMSII (Human Resources Development Canada, HRDC) is running an older UNISYS environment. Much of the Canadian Government IT environment is on very current technology (and yes that includes lots of IBM System z). However, the canard about COBOL is one that always bothers me. A year or two ago the Toronto Star had an article about COBOL being a "deal language". COBOL could paraphrase Mark Twain, "The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.". IMHO, there is probably more business server application code written in COBOL than any other language still, and I see no reason for that to change. Jim ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
