ElegantJ BI

APRIL 27, 2022

What about those dedicated IT professionals who grew up on C++, SQL or Visual Basic, COBOL, Oracle D2K and other older technologies and techniques? Now, consider the relevance of the knowledge gained from a degree achieved in 2000 in an IT related discipline. How much has changed since then?

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ElegantJ BI

APRIL 27, 2022

What about those dedicated IT professionals who grew up on C++, SQL or Visual Basic, COBOL, Oracle D2K and other older technologies and techniques? Now, consider the relevance of the knowledge gained from a degree achieved in 2000 in an IT related discipline. How much has changed since then?

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 9, 2023

It’s just like, you know, think about like a 50 year old COBOL mainframe system. Now you think about if you want an organization that is resilient to change, it has to be organized around individual elements that can be easily changed.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 2, 2023

Some of the most interesting conversations I have I’ve had over the last 13, 14, 15 years are with like hardcore security engineers or architects that are responsible for like a 50-year-old COBOL legacy platform, something like that. And, you know, they’re being told, Hey, you need to do Scrum.

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Cprime

JUNE 7, 2021

SonarQube supports a variety of programming languages, including Java, C#, C/C++, JavaScript, TypeScript, COBOL, Apex, PHP, Kotlin, Ruby, Scala, HTML, CSS, ABAP, Flex, Objective-C, Python, Go, Swift, PL/SQL, T-SQL, VB.NET, VB6, and XML. Some languages require a commercial license, though.

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Astera

MAY 25, 2023

It is crucial to choose a data extraction tool that supports unstructured and semi-structured formats such as PDFs, scanned PDFs, TXT, JSON, PRN, RTF, XLX, XLSX, and COBOL.

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Vitality Chicago

OCTOBER 26, 2020

And, then moved into a hardware door to door, computer repairs, and then into a COBOL programmer. So COBOL programmer to coaching? And so, yeah, then I had helped running a factory of manufacturing PVC pipes that my uncle had. Anthony: Oh my gosh. That’s quite a circuitous path. CK: Yeah, yeah. Anthony: Wow. That’s awesome.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 16, 2023

Let’s say this team attempts to work on a feature within a COBOL mainframe application, a system now six or seven decades old. Imagine, for instance, a Scrum team dedicated to a specific product, which is actually a subset of a legacy monolithic system.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

What if the backend is in Cobol and the front-end is in.NET? The skills of one team might not apply to the work the other teams are doing. So, why not just collapse them into one complete, cross-functional team that can service all the components? You’d have a multiple technology problem.

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Astera

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The user-friendly interface of ReportMiner simplifies template-based data extraction from PDFs, PDF forms, TXT, PRN, RTF, XLS, XLSX, and COBOL. Hence, you can automatically extract data from pdf to excel or any other sources with ease. For a one-time extraction job, there are free data extraction tools that exist.

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Leading Agile

DECEMBER 12, 2018

For context, let me clarify that we’re primarily talking about applications originally developed on IBM mainframes in Assembly language, COBOL, PL/I, or RPG and on (then) Tandem NonStop systems (now owned by HP) using TAL or COBOL. They depended on an IBM extension to COBOL that allows for nested COPY REPLACING statements.

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Leading Agile

DECEMBER 18, 2018

If your job is to tweak the same Siebel work flow definition over and over, or modify the same COBOL paragraph over and over, or restart the same server over and over when the out-of-date COTS package it hosts runs out of memory, how will you dredge up anything like “passion” for the work?

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InfoQ Articles

MARCH 25, 2021

The book Kill it with Fire by Marianne Bellotti provides strategies that organizations can use to modernize, maintain, and future-proof their systems. She suggests choosing strategies based on the organizational context, and defining what value you’re hoping to see from modernization. By Ben Linders.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Unless you want to beat COBOL code into submission with your bare hands, maybe like this , you’ll be using IBM Rational Developer for zSeries with zUnit , Compuware Topaz Workbench , or rolling your own test harness. The idea of executing a single COBOL paragraph in isolation would strike most mainframers as a little odd.

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GAVS Technology

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Computer Programming and the art of writing algorithms from COBOL to AI/ML/DL has advanced a lot in the last decade, but the developers, operators, and testing teams are still dealing with the tricky problem of works-on-my-machine phenomenon.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 29, 2018

For some languages, the developer workflow in the minimal environment is actually better than that with a full-featured IDE; notably Scala, Ruby, and COBOL; NET developer experience is comparable to using VSCode; better than using VisualStudio in my opinion. 5] COBOL. [2] Programming/scripting/markup languages & NeoVim plugins. [0]

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Astera

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

With its pre-built connectors, Astera Centerprise offers connectivity to multiple file formats, such as COBOL and HANA , as well as different sources, including XML-based health records, CRM-based patient information, and more.

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The BAWorld

APRIL 21, 2021

Business intelligence teams decide how to extract data from unstructured sources using report mining tools to convert it into structured formats, integrate with legacy systems, like COBOL, and determine the extraction method from relational databases. In addition to the extraction method, an extraction strategy is also determined.

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Like imagine if you’re a 30 year architect running a COBOL mainframe system doing a payments processing engine there where nothing can be off by a penny and you’re having all these problems and somebody comes along and says, man, if you were just doing daily standup meetings, everything would work out.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 11, 2020

Well, we were dealing with systems that had, like, front ends, and.NET, and Java, middleware systems, reporting systems, COBOL mainframe systems, and some of those systems were like risk engines and things that required a tremendous amount of domain expertise, and you just weren’t gonna let anybody touch that stuff.

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 10, 2018

” Integration servers of the era had the capability to ingest record layout definitions, for instance mainframe COBOL copybooks or Assembly DSECTS, and provided a graphical interface people could use to draw lines between the corresponding data elements in two applications.

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Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

COBOL development targeted to an IBM mainframe environment. This work can be done in a lighter-weight fashion on a Linux instance using GnuCOBOL, with help from tools like Cobol Unit Test and BerkeleyDB. The lightweight setup is suitable for the bottom layers of the “test automation pyramid” using a TDD work flow.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 27, 2018

Open COBOL IDE. These are the IDEs and editors currently installed on my laptop: Android Studio. Arduino Studio. Eiffel Studio. IntelliJ IDEA. Spring Tool Suite. Sublime Text 3. It’s just too much stuff. In Search of Simplicity.

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Insight Software

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Large companies that operate mainframe computers, for example, are currently facing a rapidly diminishing pool of skilled COBOL programmers. Longer-term trends, such as a new wave of generational requirements, should also be on the radar for strategically-minded human resources managers.

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