COBOL > General Discussion

Posted: 3/8/2010 3:26:19 PM EDT

How many remember this oldie but goodie?
or DB2 and CICS.

Posted: 3/8/2010 3:32:03 PM EDT

[#1]

Don't forget your period.

Posted: 3/8/2010 3:34:05 PM EDT

[#2]

We still use all of those at work.

Posted: 3/8/2010 3:34:34 PM EDT

[#3]

SNOBOL FTW.

Posted: 3/8/2010 3:35:19 PM EDT

[#4]

or bal assembler

Posted: 3/8/2010 3:36:07 PM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:
We still use all of those at work.

You still working on big iron or migrated into a linux environment on big iron?

Posted: 3/8/2010 3:36:48 PM EDT

[#6]

By the Lords of Cobol!

Posted: 3/8/2010 3:37:11 PM EDT

[#7]

I hated COBOL. Tell it what you are going to tell it, tell it, then tell it what you told it. Screw that, bring on the Perl.

Posted: 3/8/2010 3:37:54 PM EDT

[#8]

Had to take it in college. Never again.

Posted: 3/8/2010 3:38:24 PM EDT

[#9]

USMC 4063 FTW!!

Posted: 3/8/2010 3:38:44 PM EDT

[#10]

Please, I still have nightmares about FORTRAN & dropping a card stack.

Posted: 3/8/2010 3:40:37 PM EDT

[#11]

COBOL and RPG.

Posted: 3/8/2010 3:44:04 PM EDT

[#12]

RPG II

Posted: 3/8/2010 3:46:12 PM EDT

[#13]

I manage a Peoplesoft FSCM install. The nightmare that is COBOL is my reality.To top it off, one our core production systems uses a DB2 backend until the end of the month when we are moving it to a new iSeries.

Posted: 3/8/2010 3:48:07 PM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
By the Lords of Cobol!
http://www.movieprop.com/tvandmovie/Battlestar/adama.jpg

That was my first thought..

Posted: 3/8/2010 3:50:03 PM EDT

[#15]

JISM

Since we are throwing out abreviations that most normal people have no idea WTF you nerds are talking about.

Posted: 3/8/2010 3:50:13 PM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
How many remember this oldie but goodie?
or DB2 and CICS.

DB2 is still used in some IBM Websphere products. We have some cobol still lurking, but it is on the chopping block in the next couple of years.

Posted: 3/8/2010 3:50:21 PM EDT

[#17]

Closest I get to Cobol are old DB2 datasets

Posted: 3/8/2010 3:53:35 PM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:

Quoted:

We still use all of those at work.

You still working on big iron or migrated into a linux environment on big iron?

I am not a mainframe guy, but do have unix systems that interact with them.

Posted: 3/8/2010 3:59:38 PM EDT

[#19]

Had a couple of semesters of COBOL in college, a semester of Fortran 77, and then finally a semester of Turbo Pascal. TP was soooooooooooo much more fun than either COBOL or Fortran77. Detail lines, detail lines....

Posted: 3/8/2010 4:00:06 PM EDT

[#20]

DB2, SYS34/36 .....RPGII & COBOL.

I was just burning all my notes I found from Y2k LOL

Helped warm the house on cold winter day!

Posted: 3/8/2010 4:25:51 PM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:
Had a couple of semesters of COBOL in college, a semester of Fortran 77, and then finally a semester of Turbo Pascal. TP was soooooooooooo much more fun than either COBOL or Fortran77. Detail lines, detail lines....

The chair of my computer science department wanted a job with a particular software company, so he pushed Modula-2, because that's what they used. Supposed to be an improvement of Pascal with the best parts of Fortran thrown in; I would have rather programmed in assembly language.

Posted: 3/8/2010 4:28:41 PM EDT

[#22]

RPG II, III, IV and ILE

RPG ftw

Posted: 3/8/2010 4:29:31 PM EDT

[#23]

Fortran: The only language in which you can redefine the value of '2'.

Posted: 3/8/2010 4:41:00 PM EDT

[#24]

Quoted:

Please, I still have nightmares about FORTRAN & dropping a card stack.

That's why you numbered your cards!!!

Posted: 3/8/2010 4:44:02 PM EDT

[#25]

RPG II RPGIII, RPG ILE, CLP, CLLE, DB2 all on iSeries.

God I love this system!

Really! Things are simple here.

Vulture.

Posted: 3/8/2010 4:48:43 PM EDT

[#26]

COBOL was the bane of my pathetic life in 1992-1993. I hated those classes.

Posted: 3/8/2010 4:51:51 PM EDT

[#27]

Believe it or not I had to take COBOL for an undergrad course Spring semester 2009.

I hated it because it was so verbose, but not that hard.

In hindsight, it was good since my teachers wanted to expose me to as many different programming styles and environments as possible.

Posted: 3/8/2010 4:55:36 PM EDT

[#28]

Still doing COBOL CICS DB2 but it is on its way out. So, I asked to be transfered to a JAVA section. No deal. Started with BAL and will die with COBOL I guess.

Maxwell

Posted: 3/8/2010 5:48:02 PM EDT

[#29]

Used to run a whole plant with COBOL, could do it in my sleep. Couldn't touch it now I don't imagine.

Posted: 3/8/2010 5:50:24 PM EDT

[#30]

I enjoyed playing with assembler on an 8086 board back in the day.

Way back.

Posted: 3/8/2010 6:00:04 PM EDT

[#31]

i still use RPG every day. i dont have to do cobol. been doing RPG from RPG II all the way up to ILE.

granted i am the only one at work that still knows it. but some time i like it better than SQL and the other stuff i have to use.

Ronald

Posted: 3/8/2010 6:38:18 PM EDT

[#32]

Still using it, big main frame. We have systems using IDMS and DB2, don't see it going anywhere soon, servers just don't cut it when you are disbursing millions of dollars of loans a week, we supply data to our server apps to get the nice GUI interface.

Posted: 3/8/2010 6:42:44 PM EDT

[#33]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Please, I still have nightmares about FORTRAN & dropping a card stack.

That's why you numbered your cards!!!

Don't drop that box!

Posted: 3/8/2010 6:51:00 PM EDT

[#34]

Quoted:

Had to take it in college. Never again.

ROFL, me too. Got a "B." It was SHIT HOT back then - EVERYBODY was going to be using COBOL, lOLz.

Now it's as dated Brittany Spears' music career.

Posted: 3/8/2010 6:53:33 PM EDT

[#35]

Nope no COBOL, I came in at FORTRAN.....

Posted: 3/8/2010 6:53:47 PM EDT

[#36]

Was fortunately spared COBOL...

Did have to learn the equally absurd 'Standard PASCAL'

Took C++ and Java in college, none of the golden-oldie shit there...

Posted: 3/8/2010 6:55:35 PM EDT

[#37]

PL/1 + IMS DB/DC = old

Posted: 3/8/2010 6:56:26 PM EDT

[#38]

Quoted:

Quoted:
We still use all of those at work.

You still working on big iron or migrated into a linux environment on big iron?

COBOL/CICS, DB2 and IMS here, but we starting our migration to Java EE.

BTW, my first job was coding in an Assembler macro language for a major railroad. I learned it because I thought it was interesting, little did I know at the time that it would actually get me in the door somewhere.

Posted: 3/8/2010 7:00:28 PM EDT

[#39]

Ask my wife, I expect she can whip up some code for you.

Posted: 3/8/2010 7:01:32 PM EDT

[#40]

Did COBOL, DB2, CICS, and RPG IV in college and some RPG at my first job.

No I do C# and VB .NET and SQL and am much happier.

Well, except for the last couple of days while trying to get a multi-threaded C# app to call a C++ dll that uses memcopy. I'm getting fucking pissed off and don't know C++ to fix it :(

Posted: 3/8/2010 7:02:24 PM EDT

[#41]

Quoted:
Please, I still have nightmares about FORTRAN & dropping a card stack.

Oh man, same here. Dang cards, hated them.

Posted: 3/8/2010 7:08:55 PM EDT

[#42]

I was more on the TCAM/VTAM side of the house, but the 360/158 ran CICS.

Posted: 3/8/2010 7:19:09 PM EDT

[#43]

Ada - Ada 95 anybody?

procedure brainfuck

begin

brainfuck;

end brainfuck;

Thank god for C

Posted: 3/8/2010 7:29:27 PM EDT

[#44]

I came in at Fortran 77, then Turbo Pascal 5.5. Object Oriented Pascal...

Then machine language (Navy Data Systems Tech), and MIPS assembler. Now it's C++ and Java.

Posted: 3/8/2010 7:30:36 PM EDT

[#45]

Quoted:

Quoted:

How many remember this oldie but goodie?

or DB2 and CICS.

DB2 is still used in some IBM Websphere products. We have some cobol still lurking, but it is on the chopping block in the next couple of years.

Not really. Still in use by most of the Tivoli platforms on the os400, aix and linux (x86) platforms.

Posted: 3/8/2010 7:32:06 PM EDT

[#46]

CP/M, anyone?

CJ

Posted: 3/8/2010 7:33:41 PM EDT

[#47]

Quoted:
Please, I still have nightmares about FORTRAN & dropping a card stack.

Been there, done that.

Posted: 3/8/2010 7:35:48 PM EDT

[#48]

Did COBOL in college of course. Never used it in the real world.

Posted: 3/8/2010 7:36:45 PM EDT

[#49]

Quoted:

(Navy Data Systems Tech)

JOVIAL?

Posted: 3/8/2010 7:45:09 PM EDT

[#50]

Quoted:

Quoted:
How many remember this oldie but goodie?
or DB2 and CICS.

DB2 is still used in some IBM Websphere products. We have some cobol still lurking, but it is on the chopping block in the next couple of years.

Not really. Still in use by most of the Tivoli platforms on the os400, aix and linux (x86) platforms.

We just had a new install of Websphere Message Broker and DB2 was heavily recommended to use as the configuration DB.

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