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I once had to port COBOL to Java. It presented some interesting problems because of EBCDIC, nibbles, non IEEE arithmetic, and alien data formats. A long story
by toolslive 9y ago
I once had to port COBOL to Java. It presented some interesting problems because of EBCDIC, nibbles,
non IEEE arithmetic, and alien data formats.
A long story short: there are problems where COBOL is better suited than Java.
- camiller 9y agoWere you also moving from a mainframe to a server? I would have thought that Java on a mainframe would handle EBCDIC just fine, but I have never tried it.
- toolslive 9y agothe 'mainframe' (a prehistoric Siemens BS2000) no longer really existed as Siemens no longer gave hardware support. Instead, it was virtualised and emulated on a desktop x86.