I may be forced to sing your praises simply because I worded my "deal" wrong.

Actually i don't see such a reason. Why a new company would want to implement anything new in Cobol. Because I wouldn't want to implement something from the begining in Cobol. Unless I recieved an old mainframe and had to build a new system for it. The likeliness of that happening. 0 % ...

whenever I have had to interface data with another company, the only thing I have had to worry about is the format of the data. The languages were not important.

How about the indexed fileformats? Due to the lack of standard of these wouldn't you have to at least find out the standard of the fileformat of the Cobol they are using?

In reply to RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: Intended use and unintended use. An insight into design. (Continued) by JanneVee
in thread Intended use and unintended use. An insight into design. by JanneVee

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