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Originally Posted by id10t View Post
we still have a large dependency on 25 year old code and db schemes written by former vsam developers. Data duplicated everywhere since they couldn't grok a join, the languages (vg/egl) were originally by ibm as a way to move towards java, you write in egl/vg and it generates java+jsp or cobol code. We can't get the installer any more, we're running it on win10 vms made from ripping a physical win7 install out and upgrading the os on it. We can't even buy licenses, we tried and ibm said "we have no way of charging you for it, just ignore the license warning, here's a nice letter from our legal folk giving permission"
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