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Anuj Dhawan
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| dbzTHEdinosauer wrote: | one of the functions of an IT auditor is to insure that the code is provable:
that means, you can read/understand the source code and recreate the run unit (recompile/relink....)
if you have a production module for which you have no source,
you have no audit trail. |
That's one way of looking at it but there are times when one use some Third-party Tool and make a CALL to it via a COBOL program. And you, for a fact know that the Third-party Tool is indeed written in COBOL - would you like to generate the source for it.
Just making a statement, not questioning.
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Anuj Dhawan
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| Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 5:06 am Post subject: |
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| papadi wrote: | One reason to generate source from executable is because there is sloppy (or no) configuration management / source control and the source was lost or destroyed.
Another is to steal code. . . |
My first reaction was, what I quote in bold from your reply.
For the former, I believe, any decent shop will have a good enough version control tool which will keep some of the recent versions of the program/s in archive unless there is a disaster.
So I still strive to find more on this.
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papadi
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Hi Anuj,
If a system is running proprietary "third-party Tools", it is illegal to regenerate the source from the executable. The source is protected as it is an asset of the company that sells/leases the product.
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Anuj Dhawan
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| Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 6:04 am Post subject: |
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Exactly the point di and that's why I did not participate in that discussion...
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