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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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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Dependency Wheel Diagrams for Enterprise Application Portfolios
IN-COM October 1, 2026 Application Modernization, Applications, Compliance, Enterprise Modernization, Impact Analysis Software, Legacy SystemsThe architecture review board has a network graph. It was built from the CMDB eighteen months ago, manually updated three...
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Big Bang vs. Incremental Modernization: A Decision Framework
IN-COM September 28, 2026 Application Modernization, Code Analysis, Compliance, Data Modernization, Enterprise Modernization, Impact Analysis, Information TechnologyEvery consultant will tell you incremental is safer. They are right, and they are also telling you what is always...
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Compliance-as-Code: Embedding Regulatory Checks into Pipelines
IN-COM September 14, 2026 Code Analysis, Code Review, Compliance, Industries, Information TechnologyThe compliance audit used to mean a week of frantic evidence collection: pulling screenshots of configuration consoles, exporting spreadsheet snapshots...
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