oldcoboler
Programmer
Does anyone have any suggestions about writing Cobol programs with little or no specs ?
I.e. I'm in the middle of a complex conversion project that has a multitude of business rules that are creating some logjams for a CIS - PeopleSoft conversion effort.
The Cobol programs are essentially throw away programs in a VSE/ESA environment which convert the current data into a format that can be handled by PeopleSoft in an AIX environment.
The last programming assignment they gave me ended up being a simple two-level control break or so it seems. I asked the technical lead (who works for the same consulting firm as I do) for a little help. Instead he just took over the program and made the coding change in about two hours.
Just wondering if some of the other Cobol veterans like MarcLodge and 3GM, etc. have any war stories to tell.
Heck, two weeks after I started my last contract consulting gig at WorldCom I was writing my own specs ! Now I'm kind of lost. It's a major southeast utility that has some rather hosed up business rules and no real business analysts.
Still trying to hang in there up in TN.
Oldcoboler
I.e. I'm in the middle of a complex conversion project that has a multitude of business rules that are creating some logjams for a CIS - PeopleSoft conversion effort.
The Cobol programs are essentially throw away programs in a VSE/ESA environment which convert the current data into a format that can be handled by PeopleSoft in an AIX environment.
The last programming assignment they gave me ended up being a simple two-level control break or so it seems. I asked the technical lead (who works for the same consulting firm as I do) for a little help. Instead he just took over the program and made the coding change in about two hours.
Just wondering if some of the other Cobol veterans like MarcLodge and 3GM, etc. have any war stories to tell.
Heck, two weeks after I started my last contract consulting gig at WorldCom I was writing my own specs ! Now I'm kind of lost. It's a major southeast utility that has some rather hosed up business rules and no real business analysts.
Still trying to hang in there up in TN.
Oldcoboler