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I worked for two very big banks in europe and we have lots of cobol batch jobs that were written like 30 or 40 years ago.
by slowmotiony 2y ago
I worked for two very big banks in europe and we have lots of cobol batch jobs that were written like 30 or 40 years ago.
- jmclnx 2y agoHow many objects without source did you find there ? In the 80s (and probably before), every system I worked on had at least one critical COBOL program missing source code. I am wondering if you noticed the same with this project.
- b800h 2y agoMissing source code? That's terrifying.
- alex_suzuki 2y agoPar for the course.
- derriz 2y agoI did some contracting for a retail bank a good while back and the COBOL source for the term deposit interest calculation routine had been lost a few decades earlier but was still in use. I suggested a rewrite but there was no enthusiasm/support for it - especially as my prototype could not exactly reproduce the rounding. Nobody wanted to have to deal with customer communications to explain why one cent of interest was being paid a month earlier or later than before.
- jmclnx 2y ago> suggested a rewrite but there was no enthusiasm/support for it Been there :) Yes, you always get a "no" for doing that.
- SonOfLilit 2y agoAhaha I'm also working with a bank and "customer communications" is a really nice euphemism for "barrage of class action suits". I'm sitting here in the office laughing out loud.
- slowmotiony 2y agoTotally normal, happened all the time :))