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Updating the software to support stronger passwords or rewrite it from scratch, on a totally different platform? I don’t think you’re making argument think you

• mberning 3y ago
  You have no idea. This is not some database field that you can just alter with one statement and update a field on a screen. Things like this get hardcoded into hundreds of thousands of lines of assembler and cobol and need to be changed and tested everywhere. With no automated testing or other tools to mitigate the risk. It is an absolute nightmare. And 5 or 10 years from now it will be way worse because working on a mainframe is a deadend career and very few people are learning it.
  • justapassenger 3y ago
    I’m not saying it’ll be easy. But what’s even harder is rewriting 50 year old software, with all the bugs that others relay on now (both people and software), wanky and complex business logic, etc, etc. I’m not saying that you should stick to mainframe. But rewriting it because you need to support strong password is not a reason to do it.