Re: Specifying all biz rules in relational data
Date: 19 Sep 2004 08:27:57 -0700
Message-ID: <da3c2186.0409190727.474bed12_at_posting.google.com>
mAsterdam <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org> wrote in message news:<414ce0ae$0$43451$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl>...
> robert wrote:
> > ... the batch processing
> > COBOL folk will simply not allow even 3rd normal form structures. they
> > simply don't chew as fast as VSAM flat files for that kind of processing.
>
> What excuse do they have for batch processing
> for anything beyond garbage collecting, reporting
> and [end|start]-of-[day|week|month|year]
> aggregation?
they've got 1,000,000 lines of COBOL dating back to 1975 that works (well, except for the bugs)??? it's called "running a cycle". everybody used to do it. close a month, clear the accumulator "files", etc. Some systems still run that way. Received on Sun Sep 19 2004 - 17:27:57 CEST