Posted by Mike on Monday, July 26, 2010 - 58 views
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 Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 240 views
Owens & Minor moves Cobol-based ERP system to x86 server, Windows machines
A lot of Cobol-based applications have a plot line similar to the first Star Trek movie.
In it, the crew of the Enterprise discovers a huge, intelligent cloud they called “V’ger.” It turns out (plot spoiler alert), though, that V’ger was an unmanned spacecraft called Voyager that had been launched from Earth some 300 years earlier and then readapted by alien forces.
That Star Trek movie was released in 1979. The Cobol-based ERP application suite used by Owens & Minor Inc., a medical supply company, began its life in the 1980s as a packaged application. Over time, the company adapted the ERP software to meet its specific needs, creating a highly customized system with 10 million lines of code. (READ MORE)
Posted by Mike on Thursday, March 4, 2010 - 783 views
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Posted by Mike on Friday, January 8, 2010 - 140 views
Scan through IT news on any given day, and there’s a good chance you’ll find a story about some large organization or another replacing its IBM mainframe with servers running UNIX, Linux — and sometimes even Windows.
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