[grammie]

Or any of the companies that can run mainframe COBOL and provide all the ecosystem. heirloom computing is of course the best (i am cto) but Micro Focus, lzlabs etc all enable you to run off mainframe with a full ecosystem.

Do not know about our competitors but you can run our product for free on a raspberry pi if you just want to play around.

[freetanga]

If I recall, microfocus recompiles while lzlabs emulates on a layer.

With microfocus JCL become bash scripts and have similar tools to mainframe. Unsure if lzlabs translates jcls.

My favorite unanswered question when someone told me take the 70.000 component core banking to cloud is “ok, on which language you can assure will run in 10-15 years?” As that’s the bare minimum the new CBS has to last.

If we had followed the crowd, we would have built it as microservices, then as event-driven architecture, then as Mini-monoliths, on auto generated Java that turns one cobol program into an object but is not designed as an OO platform…

I understand companies should not be tied to the past but running off a precipice full speed on is not smart either…

[dmd]

> ok, on which language you can assure will run in 10-15 years

Perl 5.

[le-mark]

Does hierloom support jcl and batch job scheduling? Or which ones do?

[freetanga]

Microfocus has you write scripts to replace jcl (can be somewhat automated) and has control tools to monitor batch.

Also consider that Linux allows more flexible IPC so some batch can be simplified dramatically