I like retro computing - and this ain’t it. This is consultants gouging their clients, and a cultish “we don’t touch that” inherited through generations of management.
To be clear, parts of it are in COBOL. Other bits are in RPG, others yet in PL/1, and then a generous application of java, c++, windows shell scripts, unix shell scripts, and it’s all held together with TSVs.
It’s more like hoarding than anything else - “don’t touch that, it might be useful, I don’t know, just leave it as it is, we’ll get eleven new servers for whatever it is that it does”
In the end we gave them a pile of python that ingested malformatted EDIs that another system made and spat out TSVs so that same system could then not trip over its own shoelaces.
To be clear, parts of it are in COBOL. Other bits are in RPG, others yet in PL/1, and then a generous application of java, c++, windows shell scripts, unix shell scripts, and it’s all held together with TSVs.
It’s more like hoarding than anything else - “don’t touch that, it might be useful, I don’t know, just leave it as it is, we’ll get eleven new servers for whatever it is that it does”
In the end we gave them a pile of python that ingested malformatted EDIs that another system made and spat out TSVs so that same system could then not trip over its own shoelaces.