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>On May 2, 1:40 pm, docdw...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> In article
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>> Pakku <pa...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> >I've spent much of this morning looking for some comparison between
>> >the performance of Java and COBOL for batch programming on z/OS.
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>> Other people have been looking for data about this, in order to help
very
>> large cor****ations make/save very large amounts of money, for a good,
long
>> time.
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>> >I
>> >haven't found any useful information and am hoping I might find some
>> >here.
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>> Nothing here but text and words... put together a good PowerPoint
>> presentation and you'll get the contract.
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>No contract involved, I am afraid. Just a humble grunt who shot off
>his mouth in a meeting that Java batch programs/processes are sucky on
>MVS and now trying to find something to back me up!
Hmmmm... aside from the caution of 'make sure that brain is engaged before
putting mouth in gear'... how about something like 'I spent twenty whole
minutes (or an equivalently impressive amount of time) searching the Web
and found *nothing* that would indicate any kind of superiority'?
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>While I am all for SOA and WebServices and real-time, I just don't get
>how we will send out bills to 200K clients each month in any fa****on
>other than a batch process that runs at month-end.
You might want to speak with Mr Dashwood about that... maybe *he* will get
the contract.
>And to rewrite
>existing program from Cobol in Java just because some policy-wonk
>mandated that we will be an all-Java shop in 5 years...
If said wonk has the budget and authority to sign your timesheets then, in
my experience, it is best to learn how to generate smiles.
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>Oh well- same story different players!
I know the song well enough to sing harmony... it was back in, oh, 1996 or
so I got a contract with an insurance company, helping with some 'catch-up
work' on a tremendous backlog of mainframe coding. Seems that in 1993 a
Corner-Office Idiot declared that within five year's they would be off the
Big Iron and doing everything client-server.
In 1998 they were bought out after being in business 102 years... post
hoc, ergo propter hoc, of course.
DD
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