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How does ai implement all the not Cobol parts a Cobol program rely on? Job Contol, CICS, sort processors? Cobol and mainframe technologies are non existant in j
by Surac 2mo ago
How does ai implement all the not Cobol parts a Cobol program rely on? Job Contol, CICS, sort processors? Cobol and mainframe technologies are non existant in java on any modern machine
- p_l 2mo agoBatch job control is handled by alternative systems (already often triggering the work on mainframes anyway) like Control-M CICS is the big issue but AFAIK there were attempts. Everything else, including sort and VSAM, has various options provided usually by COBOL compiler vendors.
- TimByte 1mo agoFor the article they just mocked it out for unit tests. But in reality you really can't - that’s a massive pain in the ass. Rewriting pure math is easy, but mocking CICS transaction isolation in java means spinning up these monstrous adapter frameworks that just tank performance
- renezander030 1mo ago[dead]
- pjmlp 1mo agoIf the systems are to stay on mainframe/micro land, all IBM, Fujitsu, Unisys platforms support Java. This is one set of ecosystems, where .NET going cross platform still misses out to Java, and neither of those companies cares about supporting it on their platforms. There are some half way supported Python, Go and Rust versions as well, although I think they need the "WSL" of the respective mainframe/micro OS, aka UNIX services.