But walk into Banca Popolare’s smart new branch on the Via Savona in Milan’s Zona Solari district, and the service these days is much faster than customers have previously experienced. The reason? Unwilling to throw out the bank’s legacy banking applications, totalling some 90 million lines of Cobol, but unable to keep them running under IBM’s vintage OS/2 Presentation Manager operating system, Whincup has used a proprietary legacy integration tool from Jacada to connect the Cobol to IBM’s WebSphere — running in a Linux partition on the bank’s mainframe.
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Source: CIO.com