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oakey66@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago

DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse

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DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse

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DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Code Base in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse
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Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.
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    How old do you think the mainframes running Social Security are?

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      Probably a mix of Z systems, that stuff goes back 20-odd years, and even then older code can still run on new Z systems which is something IBM brags about.
      Mainframes aren’t old they’re just niche technology, and that includes enterprise Java software.

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        Think further back. Like late 80s to 90s IBM

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          Yeah, that’s what they said, 20 years or so ago

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            Ok this is gonna hurt. 2005 was 20 years ago

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      Do you have reason to think that? Organizations that use mainframes keep them up-to-date in my experience.

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        Chatty government contractors. I imagine some parts are updated but at least 2 years ago there was still a load of legacy hardware kicking for them to speak of

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      Old enough to collect benefits themselves

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