2026-09-22 22:47 UTC
@blog@shkspr.mobi banks often use ancient software, in the u.s. pershing (bank of new york) used (probably still uses) very old account software, the printouts could not display the name of the report only a 3 digit code, leading to wrong report being used in some cases
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@JustinDerrick@mstdn.ca 2026-09-22 23:51
@brettm @blog I work in this space (digital archiving of data - including mainframe data coded in EBCDIC) and can confirm this is a limitation and ongoing issue for many banks, insurance companies, and governments. For mainframe reports, data arrives with names which have a maximum of 8 characters per field, and this is a serious limitation for an organization with tens of thousands of reports. Even if the underlying database has their fields expanded (to make space for Unicode characters) the applications that run on top don’t support it, so, in a word, they are screwed.