[Info-vax] Any stronger versions of the LMF planned ?, was: Re: LMF Licence Generator Code

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 8/8/21 4:42 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 8/7/2021 8:24 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> On 8/7/21 7:40 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> On 8/7/2021 6:42 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>>> On 8/7/21 5:56 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>>> - it does not integrate with newer system that it need to
>>>>>    integrate with
>>>>
>>>> With the exception of Dave's system (I actually know very little
>>>> about VMS BASIC) I can think of no legacy system that can not be
>>>> integrated into a modern system.  I have had no problems doing web
>>>> programming with COBOL.
>>>
>>> Anything can be somewhat integrated using various hacks.
>>
>> I needed no hacks to get COBOL running on the web.  It's a mindset
>> problem, not a technical one.
> 
> Literally nay programming language can be used to write
> a CGI script.
> 
> But there is a very long way from the 1995 CGI scripts
> to modern web solutions.
> 
> Did you Cobol web app support:
> - session sharing across cluster
> - OAuth integration
> - LDAP integraion
> - verification of client certificate
> - Redis or memcached for cache
> - exposing status / load info to load balancer
> - reporting stats and health check to IBM Tivoli / CA Unicenter / Zabbix
> - reporting to Prometheus
> - HTTP/2 push
> - web sockets
> - switching to in-cloud managed service for database
> - having accept request header determine response format
> ?
> 

No, but then, neither did the PHP program I was replacing.  :-)

bill