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Comment by boobsbr

2 days ago

Not an int32, but a BigDecimal.

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zvqcMMV6Zcr  2 days ago

Isn't it handled by COBOL or some other ancient language that only supports strings?

  • boobsbr  2 days ago

    It's Struts 1.0 running on J2EE 1.5 hosted on WebSphere which does the talking to COBOL.

    COBOL serializes everything to strings in a flat file.

    We're currently planning on migrating the flat files to a Sybase DB.

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