Ask HN: 2021 Longest running database-backed app in production?

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What is the longest running database-backed app still in production in 2021? What language, database, and OS is being used for it? COBOL? DB2? z/OS?

Probably https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabre_(computer_system), running since 1960. It ran on System/360 for decades, maybe still does.

Yes, the Martinsburg Monster.

This later film shows what looks like an IBM 360/65 console at 1:09, but an article from 1963 says they were using an IBM 7074 then: