Posted by Mike on Monday, January 2, 2012 - 205 views
State officials responsible for paying vendors and public employees are eager to replace an accounting system used for nearly two decades – before it crashes.
The Department of Administration’s General Accounting Office has managed to keep the system running, even with frequent glitches, but state Comptroller D. Clark Partridge said he doesn’t know how much longer it will hold.
“We’ve done a very good job of avoiding failure,” Partridge said. “When does that string snap?”
The office handles state finances through the Arizona Financial Information System, or AFIS. In 1992 the department spent $3.2 million on the COBOL, or Common Business-Oriented Language, program developed in 1959 to run the system.
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Posted by Mike on Tuesday, July 19, 2011 - 272 views
The 50+ year-old programming language still hasn’t died; it’s not even pining for the fjords
Programming language stalwart Cobol will continue to have a place in the enterprise for decades to come, at least according to one software developer. Ads for Cobol programmers, or jobs where Cobol knowledge is listed as an advantage, regularly run into the double digits at job search site Seek.com.au.
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Posted by Mike on Tuesday, November 9, 2010 - 254 views
The IBM i job market is meat grinder these days for IT workers. The lucky ones are fighting to hang on to the jobs they have, while the unlucky are struggling to put their IT talents to work again. On either side of that great divide, there are people benefiting from having better tools in their toolboxes than the person next to them. I’m talking about specialized skills and, in particular, I’m talking about database skills where there is short supply and a growing demand.
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Roles and responsibilities change depending on the company and the size of the staff, Cain says, but education and training of existing staff will be necessary. This is how he sees it from the IBM i perspective. And traditional RPG and COBOL application developers need to embrace SQL as the language to access the database, among other new skills that will have to be acquired.
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Posted by Mike on Monday, July 19, 2010 - 206 views
“(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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Posted by Mike on Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 270 views
The ideal candidate will have IBM COBOL, JCL, TSO/ISPF, CICS and production support experience. Lean and IDEAL experience is preferred. …
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