How to Resolve Static Analysis Warnings for Always-False Conditions and Unreachable Branches
IN-COM October 20, 2026 COBOL Posts, Code Analysis, Code Review, Compliance, Developers, Impact Analysis, Legacy Systems, Tech TalkYour static analyzer has flagged a condition as always false. The warning looks like one of these, depending on your...
Read More
TIME Model (Tolerate, Invest, Migrate, Eliminate) for App Portfolios
IN-COM October 19, 2026 Applications, Code Review, Data, Enterprise ModernizationThe application rationalization meeting starts at 9 AM. By 11 AM, the team has classified twelve of the four hundred...
Read More
I’m Not Top Dog Anymore
Shlomo Friman October 18, 2026 Artificial Intelligence (AI), SMART NewsFor almost 20 years, every hard question about SMART TS XL ended with me. Not anymore. Through our MCP server, ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini or Grok now knows the product better than its creator. The proudest demotion of my career.
Read More
Why COBOL-to-Java Converters Produce “Jobol”, and How to Avoid It
IN-COM October 15, 2026 Application Modernization, Data Modernization, IndustriesThe conversion completed in three months. The Java application compiled, passed basic smoke tests, and was pronounced ready for deployment....
Read More
Comprehension vs. Translation: What AI Actually Solves in COBOL Modernization
IN-COM October 13, 2026 Application Modernization, Artificial Intelligence (AI), COBOL Posts, Code Analysis, Impact AnalysisOn February 23, 2026, IBM’s share price fell 13 percent in a single day, its steepest one-day decline since October...
Read More
Blast Radius Analysis: Estimating the Cost of a Bad Deploy
IN-COM October 12, 2026 Applications, Code Review, Compliance, Industries, Tech TalkA single bad deployment produced a $180,000 incident, not because the deployment was uniquely catastrophic, but because nothing in the...
Read More