Chapter 10. The Legacy Zone
In the late 1990s, I was working for a company as a part of its e-commerce development team. Our job was to build an Internet front end to the data that was generated by the company's COBOL-based legacy systems. After various options were explored, the final solution that was reached between us (the Internet team) and them (the mainframe guys) was that they would export all their data into a SQL server database. Then we would be free to display it however we chose, using normal Web-development techniques.
After the project was launched, I became curious about how they planned to import the data into the SQL database. I met with the tech lead of the back-end system, and he showed me what they were doing. Their solution ...
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