Perhaps they didn't know about the checkbox and thought they had to write a custom solution. It could also be that they knew about that really subtle bug that is caused by un-checking that checkbox and thus understood why that didn't actually solve the problem long term if though it looked like a good solution at the time.
Or perhaps they're so used to getting away with quoting 6 month for a 6 hour job, it never crossed their mind not to.
Be cause the checkbox only removed the validation error. Who know what other errors will be encountered when the cobol can't read the incoming messages, which might or might not be in the right order?
Yep. Probably IBM Data Transform Services™️ installed in the cloud plus a custom plugin written to do the ordering. That’s a few folks to deploy and configure the server. A few more for the engineering. Oh and there’s probably a support contract to support and maintain this new “solution”.
