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- COBOL
- COmmon Business Oriented Language A high-level programming language that has been the primary business application language on mainframes and minis. It is a compiled language and was one...
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- Net Express with .NET (zip)
- Micro Focus Net Express with .NET is the market-leading COBOL development environment for extending core business processes to the .NET Framework and other distributed platforms. Powerful integration with Microsoft Visual Studio and the .NET Framework plus direct COBOL Web services capabilities, J2EE connectivity and XML support allow easy integration of...
- Tags: COBOL, Programming Languages, .Net, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Software downloads 2008-07-21
- From CFrom Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe
- From CFrom Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM MainframeDitch all this Cr@p!They need to simply go with Vista Server and MS Access 2008 Server! Problem solved!http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.comRE: From CFrom Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM MainframePlease bear in mind that the 360 came out ten years before the ideas...
- Tags: Mainframes, Programming languages, Servers, maintenance programming, COBOL, CFrom Chapter, data-processing, pianist, IBM mainframe, IBM Corp., mainframe
- Discussion threads 2008-06-20
- From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe
- COBOL reflects 1920s data processing methods - and because the IBM 360 implemented COBOL it became the foundation for an entire worldview - a culture founded entirely on a refusal to adapt to external change: in technology, in the mission, in anything. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: Card, Application, IBM Mainframe, Financial, Physician, Mainframe, Data-processing, File, COBOL, IBM Corp., Records, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-06-20
- From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe
- The nature of data processing is to be long winded, boring, and dominated by acronyms derived from long gone technologies and business practices. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: Program, Job, IBM Mainframe, Operating System, Environment, Mainframe, Instruction Set, Memory, Data-processing, Hardware, CPU, Unix, Computer, COBOL, Machine, IBM Corp., System 360, APL, JCL, Flash Memory, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-06-13
- BIt: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe
- BIt: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM MainframeReading this gives me the shakes......by bringing back my days at the Chubb Institute in 1991, learning BASIC, OS JCL & COBOL. MANY hours of flow charting...WITH PENCIL & PAPER...and many more hours at a terminal trying to get what I...
- Tags: Mainframes, Programming languages, Servers, data-processing, COMPUTER PROGRAMS, COBOL, mainframe, IBM mainframe, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-06
- BIt: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe
- From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe This is the 4th excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: BIT: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Note that the section this is taken from, on the evolution of...
- Tags: IBM Mainframe, Environment, Mainframe, Data-processing, Computer, COBOL, IBM Corp., Flowmatic, Data Division, Identification Division, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-06-06
- From BIT Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe
- From BIT Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM MainframeContextThe reason COBOL still does most of the work today is because it has handled, is handling, and will handle simple tasks effectively on software that already exists and has been creepingly adapted to current circumstances.(You wouldn't want to quote that...
- Tags: Mainframes, Strategy, Leadership, Programming languages, Servers, IBM Corp., COBOL, innovation, information technology, Web service, business side, mainframe, Web, IBM mainframe
- Discussion threads 2008-05-23
- Brief: 1
- Brief: 1Minor detail"Flowmatic eventually became COBOL "Perhaps would be better stated as:"Flowmatic eventually became the software product known as COBOL"You are talking about the movement from mechanical cards to internal commands are you not? The way you currently have it assumes they know what COBOL is. While most...
- Tags: Programming languages, COBOL, Flowmatic
- Discussion threads 2008-01-11
- Does the capital 'G' in Google stand for Gosling?
- Does the capital 'G' in Google stand for Gosling?There are still jobs for CobolAlways a problem basing conclusions on one-off anecdotes or personal experience. There are still plenty of jobs for COBOL programmers too.Java was too slow, too late and too much trouble. Just as there are die-hards...
- Tags: Programming languages, Domain names, Network technology, COBOL, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-09-24
- Multiplying "Hello World"
- Multiplying "Hello World"Guilty![i]...the programming language you think in shapes the algorithm choice and therefore affects both how you think about a problem and how you solve it - that’s why COBOL programmers working in Perl usually just write COBOL using Perl notation.[/i]This is very true. When I first started...
- Tags: Programming languages, Scripting languages, Development tools, C/C++, Now IT, Mark-Jason Dominus, Perl, COBOL
- Discussion threads 2007-06-05
- Cheerfully spreading paranoia
- Cheerfully spreading paranoiaIt is not just COBOLYou can write cr*p code in any language - PERL is laughingly referred to as a "write once" language since once you've written you can't maintain it! If anything COBOL is very easy to read.The secret is good design - always has been and...
- Tags: Programming languages, COBOL
- Discussion threads 2007-05-21
- IRS CIO holds out hope for modernization by holding onto COBOL systems
- IRS CIO holds out hope for modernization by holding onto COBOL systems6502 ForeverUnder no circumstances should the IRS have better computers than we do. In fact I think we should take away their 360/30's and replace them with Atari 800's... just as soon as we figure out how to attach...
- Tags: Programming languages, Internal Revenue Service, COBOL
- Discussion threads 2007-04-12
- IRS CIO holds out hope for modernization by holding onto COBOL systems
- 20 years and $5 billion later, the IRS is still unable to upgrade its computer system and continues to use mainframes running assembly code written in the 1960s, CNET News.com reports. The IRS long-term goal is to run its operations with the efficiency Americans expect of banks and...
- Tags: IT Management, IRS, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-12
- RM Cobol Data Entry Program Generator (zip)
- This will produce a complete program for data entry and maintenance for RM Cobol file. Save hours with this utility, just fill a template file, specifying the display, fields and file names, and you'll get the source code that when compiled without errors, can be use to add, modify or...
- Tags: COBOL, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Software downloads 2007-01-30
- Cobol Working Storage Code Aid (zip)
- Simple program to generate the source code for Cobol working storage section using in reports. Just write the look of your report using a text editor; run the program and specify the filename you just have edited, the output filename, and you are done.
- Tags: COBOL, Programming Languages, Storage, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Hardware
- Software downloads 2007-01-11
- 100 years of Grace Hopper
- 100 years of Grace HopperAdvanced languages?Until I used Cobol I was a Pascal bigot. It took me about 2 weeks to learn COBOL that the company was using on an ancient Burroughs 6707. One adjective changed my mind forever..corresponding. No other "advanced" language I've ever heard of...
- Tags: Programming languages, Ther, COBOL
- Discussion threads 2006-12-08
- Extending COBOL to SOA, Web Services and Beyond: A Look at the Architecture
- A variety of tactical Web-enablement technologies were used to meet that requirement, but most of these extension solutions were implemented as short-term, stop-gap responses to an immediate need. In many cases the resulting deployment infrastructures are fragile, failure-prone and inflexible. Until recently most extension solutions focused primarily on exposing legacy...
- Tags: Web, Web Service, Micro Focus, SOA, COBOL, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Programming Languages, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2006-10-01
- Introducing Micro Focus Net Express to Develop and Extend COBOL Applications Within .NET
- This paper will introduce the capabilities of Micro Focus Net Express that allows COBOL to operate within the .NET environment. This provides a variety of options for enhancing and extending existing systems. The paper discusses how Micro Focus helps to extend and modernize COBOL applications reusing existing code within the...
- Tags: Microsoft .NET, Micro Focus, COBOL, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2006-10-01
- Import COBOL Copybooks in IBM Rational Data Architect: Don't Lose the Legacy
- COBOL copybooks are often considered to be "Legacy data." Many companies rely on the information in those structures, so they need to be included in the data modeling process. In this paper learn how to import COBOL copybooks in IBM Rational Data Architect and include them in the data model....
- Tags: COBOL, IBM Corp., COBOL Copybooks, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2006-09-19
- IDE Cobol (zip)
- IDE Cobol is RAD Environment to make applications using the older MS-Cobol 80. IDE Cobol is a freeware software. Was develop to academic use but could be used how as you want. Multi-language Brazilian Portuguese and English.
- Tags: IDE, Freeware, COBOL, IDE Cobol, Programming Languages, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Software downloads 2006-08-04
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