Posted by Mike on Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Fidelity Information Systems (FIS) has put in place a strategy for integrating its myriad payment systems. This is centred on a ‘wrapper’ approach, using the newest of its offerings, its Nomad Software-derived Cortex debit and prepaid card system. Cortex is intended to provide a web services layer and standard look and feel. Functionality will be moved into this layer so that the back-end systems will increasingly become pure transaction engines.
FIS covers both the acquiring and switching sides of the sector. There is some overlap between the applications but the positioning is reasonably clear. On the switch side, the eFunds-derived Connex is one of FIS’s long-established workhorses. It runs on Hewlett-Packard’s Tandem-derived NonStop or IBM zOS platforms, with flat files or DB2, and is written in Cobol and Assembler at the back-end.
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Posted by Mike on Tuesday, August 24, 2010
PHOENIX–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Veryant, the COBOL and Java technology innovator, today announced a new update to isCOBOL Application Platform Suite (APS), its powerful COBOL development, deployment, and modernization platform. The new software release helps organizations maximize the business value of existing application assets with important new capabilities to better customize and control application management and modernization tasks, simplify migration to isCOBOL, and enhance resource management.
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Posted by Mike on Monday, August 16, 2010
If you are an aging programmer, you have likely seen and/or programmed in COBOL at some point in your life. Indeed, most baby boomers learned COBOL as a first, second, or third language as they began their programming careers. Still, most of us think of COBOL as a dead language that is in the process of being replaced in business.
But is it?
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Posted by Mike on Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Micro Focus International warns its first-quarter performance is below management expectations following transaction delays.
As a result of weaker license revenue, the group now expects to deliver low single-digit like for like revenue growth for 2011 instead of mid single-digit growth.
However it expects no change to current EBITDA guidance for the full year as a result of cost management initiatives.
Revenue for the three months to July grew by 40% year on year but excluding the impact of the Borland and Compuware acquisitions was flat.
The group said its performance was below management expectations and caused by the delayed timing of a number of significant transactions beyond the end of the first quarter.
It also pointed to continued weakness in higher-volume, low-value deals across all three lines of business (COBOL Development, Modernization & Migration and AMQ).
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Posted by Mike on Thursday, July 29, 2010
The owner is moving and needs to clear out some old books. This textbook was used for college, so is in “worn” shape and may have some writing/highlighting in it. Programming in Cobol/400: James Cooper
Be sure to make sure of the location of this item before contacting the owner.
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Posted by Mike on Tuesday, July 27, 2010
A client of ours called me last week.
“Lou, I need two COBOL developers who can help certify code. Do you have a resume you want to send my way?”
“Sure!”
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Posted by Mike on Monday, July 26, 2010
By Alan Zeichick
I’m a mainframe guy. Cut my teeth writing COBOL, PL/I and FORTRAN on the IBM System/370. CICS is my friend. Was playing with virtual machines long, long before there was anything called “DOS” or Windows” or “Linux.” My office closet is filled with punch cards and old nine-track tapes, all probably unreadable today. One of the happiest days of my professional life was trading in an old TeleVideo 925 monochrome terminal for a brand-new 3279 color display.
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Posted by Mike on Monday, July 19, 2010
“(If) you’re a COBOL (common business-oriented language) programmer,” working with an old programming language, “you’ll have a harder time finding a job because there’s not as much demand for that as a web or .net developer.”
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