COBOL programmer salaries up by 43% in 1 year
What does this mean for legacy systems?
See IT Job Watch site. Here is my ideas on the reasons for this increase ...
Microfocus's increasing license costs & Legacy Modernization
Increased licensing costs is hastening the move away from COBOL
Legacy Modernization focus is changing faster from Rehosting to translation - thanks to the ever increasing Microfocus license costs.
From COBOL Data-Types to Java/C# Primitive data-types
Where possible
This is a continuation of my earlier blog - asking what would be the desirable characteristics of a COBOL program - rewritten in OO Java or C#. I followed that post with a description of first steps to go from Structured data definitions into an Object-Oriented design.
In this posting, we'll look at what can happen to all the data-items, COBOL redefinitions, COMP variables and etc.