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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Ripple Effect Analysis: Tracing a One-Line Change Through a Codebase
IN-COM October 7, 2026 Code Review, Compliance, Impact Analysis, Legacy SystemsThe commit message said “extend customer balance field precision.” The change was one line in a COBOL copybook: PIC S9(9)V99...
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Entity Relationship Diagrams from Legacy Database Schemas
IN-COM October 5, 2026 Data, Impact Analysis, Industries, Legacy SystemsConnect SchemaSpy to a modern PostgreSQL database and it produces a complete ERD in minutes: every table, every column, every...
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