There used to be Easy-trieve and Cobol. Easzy-trieve was faster for quickie-reports.... except when yout got strange error codes which were sometimes difficult to deal with.
Also the quickie reports often ended in production, they used more cpu time (I think it was interpretive). Then as time...
Thank you Kenny:
I was aware of Expediter and Intertest. During the early versions these tools had problems (like you were 15 modules nested and something would happen that you could not get past). My program was a poor man's Expediter, quick and dirty, without all the overhead (and expense)...
Hi there:
I am a retired mainframe Cobol and Assembler programmer. In the late 80's and 90's I had to do maintenance for a banking system with several 1000 Cobol programs. Most of the code I had never seen before or could not remember when I had to look at it. There were no productivity tools...
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