Industry statistics indicate that 80% of a COBOL
programming staff’s time is devoted to maintenance OF COBOL rather than
new COBOL programming. DCD can reduce this time and cost by a minimum of
20% and up to 50%. DCD allows more time to correct COBOL errors, improve
designs, and adapt to new hardware, new applications, or changes in files
and databases.
COBOL programmers currently manually assemble needed information through a
long tedious task
of endless page flips between cross-reference and procedure division. This
example only shows
for the Direct Narrative. To get at the Indirect narrative is even more
difficult. Only in DCD do
you get a listing of the Indirect narrative, the hidden references.
Without DCD Programmers
must search long and hard with another 15 or more page flips to find all
of these hidden
references.
