Cobol - Re: COBOL and DB2 vs. Java and DB2

You are viewing an archived Text-only version of the thread. To view this thread in it's original format and/or if you want to reply to this thread please [click here]

Author

Re: COBOL and DB2 vs. Java and DB2

Robert

2008-01-16, 9:56 pm

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:56:49 -0800 (PST), Alistair.J.L.Maclean@googlemail.com wrote:

>A boozy chum of mine has had to support users who enter data on
>spreadsheets before feeding the files to the mainframe. The users
>frequently changed the layout of the spreadsheets with the result
>being that the mainframe crashed. On each occasion he was forced to
>change the mainframe to accomodate the changed format.

That's what XML is for.

I wrote a program that FIGURES OUT the layout of spreadsheets without foreknowledge. It
handled thousands of different formats. You can see the results here. The symbols and
numbers were extracted and normalized from a free-form spreadsheet.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hl?s=FMAGX

Sponsored Links