When I was in the Army and stationed in Korea in the early 70 due to a payroll error I had to get "advances". Then they started taking the advances out of my pay before they even fixed the problem making matters worst.
COBOL is not at fault in this issue. It is incompetence. It is poor management, probably managers who shouldn't have been in data processing to begin with. How else would you loss all the documentation except for fire and water. COBOL, though fairly old, can be well written by a competent skilled programmers, having done that early on in my career. The excuse that some of the COBOL code was corrupted is stupid. Really, has anyone ever seen decay or rust in any code? Did it have bugs? No. Every "bug" I have ever seen has been actually some programmer's mistake. Gary Gary L. Shiminsky Senior zVM/zVSE Systems Programmer Mainframe Technical Support Group Department of Information Technology State of New Hampshire 27 Hazen Drive Concord, NH 03301 603-271-1509 Fax 603-271-1516 Statement of Confidentiality: The contents of this message are confidential. Any unauthorized disclosure, reproduction, use or dissemination (either whole or in part) is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, please notify the sender immediately and delete the message from your system. -----Original Message----- From: Phil Smith III <li...@akphs.com> Reply-To: IBM List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> Date: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 4:34 PM To: IBM List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> Subject: Blame the COBOL, how cliché >http://preview.reuters.com/2013/7/9/wounded-in-battle-stiffed-by-the-penta >go >n > > > >So the reason the payroll system is broken is because COBOL is ³old²? >Sheesh. That¹s really weakŠ > > > >Oy, and they tried PeopleSoft as a replacementŠ > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
