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Re:MitID, Denmarks sole digital ID, has been down for over a... by zvqcMMV6Zcr on Friday February 27, 2026 @07:45AM (#47179890)
Isn't it handled by COBOL or some other ancient language that only supports strings?
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Re:MitID, Denmarks sole digital ID, has been down for over a... by boobsbr on Friday February 27, 2026 @09:46AM (#47181078)
It's Struts 1.0 running on J2EE 1.5 hosted on WebSphere which does the talking to COBOL.

COBOL serializes everything to strings in a flat file.

We're currently planning on migrating the flat files to a Sybase DB.

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