And keeps the COBOL compiled and going on Linux. Not kidding:
“All of these events get inserted into the database, all the programming checks for logic, checks for duplicates, checks for valid numbers — even United Parcel Service and Federal Express shipments — are inserted through a series of Cobol programming languages that have been developed over the last 15 years,” Byrne said.
“We’re inserting like 40 million events a day,” he added.
The compiler lets developers move Cobol code to the Linux portion of the mainframe without rewriting source code, Byrne said.
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