https://securitypuppy.com/Blog posts and notes from securitypuppyHugoen-usTue, 18 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://securitypuppy.com/w/enablingexci/Tue, 18 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://securitypuppy.com/w/enablingexci/One of the request that we encountered a lot on the COBOL Programming Course is CICS. Everybody wanted to use CICS, but administering the subsystem proved to be a difficult process. With CICS, a transaction name is limited to 4 characters. On your shop, you may have a certain naming conventions for those transactions or perhaps not everyone have access to make a new CICS transaction. However, on the system which we are using for the COBOL Programming Course, we have a ton of users. There are …https://securitypuppy.com/w/learningcobol/Fri, 25 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://securitypuppy.com/w/learningcobol/Let’s talk about COBOL! A programming language which, despite being 61 years old, still powers many of the world’s business and finance systems. It was designed to be a standard business-oriented computing language, and it did just that. Enterprise Business Applications The reality is many enterprise business applications are large and complex, involving many rotating parts and thousands of lines of code. Back in 2017, Reuters approximates that there are still 220 billion lines of COBOL still in …