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Thanks for forgetting me, i'm a programmer on mainframes
something you guys can't understand

spaceman-spiff wrote:Thanks for forgetting me, i'm a programmer on mainframes
something you guys can't understand

What can't we understand... that you are one... or the things you have to do.... hehe

I dont know much of mainframes... but I now know you're the one who programms them...

spaceman-spiff wrote:Thanks for forgetting me, i'm a programmer on mainframes
something you guys can't understand

Why Cobol?

We're using a software to run our firm that we got from our Dutch friends, they took over our company way back in the eighties
This was written in cobol, no questions asked
The sources date from 1985, we haven't been able to find a similar package on the market that fits our needs
So now we are still running in cobol, but on up-to-date Unix mainframes
As we have a bit of a cash-flow problem things aren't looking great
But it is the intention of changing in a year or 2
I think it will be oracle based, but the soft on top ???
Hopefully something non-cobol so we can learn a new language

spaceman-spiff wrote:We're using a software to run our firm that we got from our Dutch friends, they took over our company way back in the eighties
This was written in cobol, no questions asked
The sources date from 1985, we haven't been able to find a similar package on the market that fits our needs
So now we are still running in cobol, but on up-to-date Unix mainframes
As we have a bit of a cash-flow problem things aren't looking great
But it is the intention of changing in a year or 2
I think it will be oracle based, but the soft on top ???
Hopefully something non-cobol so we can learn a new language

I guess the old business rule of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" applys in your case.

well put, this is exactly what our bosses think

but cash-flow is big problem too:
it gets us in spirals without end, our database gets more important , so more people are using it , but our server can't cope with it , so we tell management that we need to get a better one , but they say we have no money , so we continue , but they need more reports , so everything is getting more and more delayed , ...

im also dutch
and im new on this forum

And another Dutch member has entered the forum ...

Spacy, cool Christmas-Henk that is in your icon

spacy wrote:im also dutch
and im new on this forum

Welcome to the forum... try to have some fun here

and the Dutch invasion continues

Xeo wrote:and the Dutch invasion continues

Indeed..
you will be assimilated, resistance is futile...

Jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!
Wat een hoop Nederlanders!!!!!!

Arathorn wrote:Jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!
Wat een hoop Nederlanders!!!!!!

about 70% here is Dutch (including me), but you still have to speak English

I will keep all my usefull posts in English.
You don't have to speak too much Dutch to understand that that post was useless.

I consider myself Dutch too and it's good we speak English here
Anyway, Dutch posts aren't forbidden as long as you translate, but don't exagerate
Some people can learn from it

*kick*

oi also-dutchies

well....I'm CasB (or just Casper), and I live in Zoetermeer, just like Observer, but I don't know him...well as far as I know then

Hi Casper, you will get to know Observer if you stay on this forum

spaceman-spiff wrote:Hi Casper, you will get to know Observer if you stay on this forum

IN DEED...

Well as for CasB/Casper: I live in 'Rokkeveen'

Observer wrote:

spaceman-spiff wrote:Hi Casper, you will get to know Observer if you stay on this forum

IN DEED...

Well as for CasB/Casper: I live in 'Rokkeveen'

hehe cool, i work the (in the industrial part), I live in 'Seghwaert', near station "Leidsewallen"

off-topic:
Coincidents must be coincedence, the rest seems ok