On 18 Apr 2007 11:59:31 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >Discussions are already "ongoing" as to whether we need to/should submit a >LNGC project SHARE requirement on either Decimal Floating point or zAPP/zIIP >eligible XML support for COBOL. > >I'll keep this list informed when/if such requirements are ready for >"discussion" > >P.S. My *personal* hope is that both of these are 'far enough along" within >IBM so that we (users) don't have to tell them to do so.
Given their inability to understand why we need 64 bit capability to communicate with 64 bit Java and the idiocy of not having native IEEE floating point in COBOL, again for Java communication, I'm not so optimistic. > >"Clark Morris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... >> On 18 Apr 2007 00:37:29 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >> >> >http://tinyurl.com/32lgs6 >> > >> >Its not dead yet >> >> Is the COBOL group in IBM on life support? There are announcements >> for both XML an hardware decimal floating point yet no hint of COBOL >> support >> > >> >For May availability >> > >> >Birger Heede >> >IBM Denmark > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
