The Long and Short of Modernization

Posted by Mike on Monday, June 6, 2011 - 229 views

“You can’t do modern development with old tools. If you still have the old tools for writing RPG or COBOL code, you need to move forward. Move to modern compilers. Get to RPG IV, ILE COBOL and ILE CL.”

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IBM Enterprise CloneDR Helps Enterprises Transform Bloated COBOL into Clean, Tight, and Maintainable Code

Posted by Mike on Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - 152 views

Large software systems typically contain 10-25% cloned code and Semantic Designs has seen as much as 58% redundancy in COBOL software. Gartner estimates over 200 billion lines of COBOL code in use today. Given a typical yearly software maintenance costs of one dollar per line of code the value of tightening working software is dramatic for virtually any COBOL system. READ MORE