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I work on the mainframes. It's straightforward to download the code to modify it locally and re-upload it. Then you can use all the tools you're comfortable wit
by js8 6y ago
I work on the mainframes. It's straightforward to download the code to modify it locally and re-upload it. Then you can use all the tools you're comfortable with. We are moving towards using Github as a main source repository, even for mainframe code.
However, yes, knowledge of how to operate 3270 terminal is required. And it has a form of grep, actually, as well as compare tools. EBCDIC is just another encoding, not a huge problem.
- Animats 6y agoEBCDIC. That's still around? Ugh. COBOL apparently still has major problems with UNICODE. COBOL in IBM land can only do UTF-16. Some IBM products are big-endian UTF-16, and some are little-endian UTF-16. COBOL (PeopleSoft version) in Oracle land can do UTF-16 and, sometimes, UTF-8 in programs for fields not stored in the database. It's late for the language to be in that state.