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I've had a limited exposure to COBOL and I consider it quite elegant for the problems it's trying to solve, particularly for column oriented transactional data
by Aloha 7y ago
I've had a limited exposure to COBOL and I consider it quite elegant for the problems it's trying to solve, particularly for column oriented transactional data processing, I found it interesting that on System Z, all of the IO, is done in the JCL that you use to start the program, not in the program itself.
- throwawayForMe2 7y agoIn the JCL you just specify how to link the logical IO definitions in the program to the actual physical IO objects (real file names etc.) in the environment. The IO statements are still in the program.