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it all just lives in a bunch of csv files on a few people’s PCs and every night a 62 year old man copy pastes it together and checks everything and then uploads
by b20000 3y ago
it all just lives in a bunch of csv files on a few people’s PCs and every night a 62 year old man copy pastes it together and checks everything and then uploads it to some old mainframe. he is the only one who knows how to do that job.
- kul_ 3y agoI cannot tell if this is a serious comment.
- 0xBDB 3y agoIt isn't, but it's not that far from being a serious comment. The old man has an ancient PC choking on dust under his desk that runs a QWS3270 terminal that updates the mainframe directly. If it's a big bank, the bank owns the mainframe. If it's a small bank, a vendor (probably Fiserv) does. Source: I've consulted for a lot of banks.