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by zvqcMMV6Zcr 114 days ago
Isn't it handled by COBOL or some other ancient language that only supports strings?
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boobsbr 113 days ago
It's Struts 1.0 running on J2EE 1.5 hosted on WebSphere which does the talking to COBOL.

COBOL serializes everything to strings in a flat file.

We're currently planning on migrating the flat files to a Sybase DB.

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