My dept is on a long term project to convert programs that run on a MF (cobol & RPG) against a DL1 database into programs that are in VB.net against an Oracle database.
The first edict is make it work EXACTLY like it did on the MF. Then we are told to make a whole whack of enhancements. And it doesn't matter how many times we explain that if we had been allowed to make the enhancements with initial redevelopment that it would have been FAR easier. And this is still an ongoing methodology.
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