Enterprise Metal C as a Separately Priced Program Product (tm) was
announced in June. The trial was announced this week (as noted).
IBM Toronto will be presenting on this at SHARE in St. Louis (it's a
last minute add). Coincidentally, I am already giving a Metal C
presentation (about converting user exits to assembler) (being project
manager has its scheduling perks ;) ). (For the record, I had no inkling
of the creating of the Metal C SPPP when I came up with the idea of the
presentation.)
I had a great conference call yesterday with IBM Toronto Metal C folks.
We are working together to cross reference our presentations. Tuesday
will be Metal C day at SHARE!
As much as I love assembler, I see the graying on the wall. The number
of young folks interested in assembler is depressingly low. (Luckily my
newest--well, only--project officer is the rare exception.)
Independently, both IBM and I have concluded that there is and will be a
need for maintaining and adding logic to specialized tasks. Leveraging
C-language knowledge in an enterprise will help make management less
gun-shy about "touching that assembler code". It's not a 100%
replacement, but if it can help prevent the creep of unsuitable
platforms into enterprise workload, I'm all for it.
Cheers,
Ray
On 2018-07-17 11:02, John McKown wrote:
On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 12:40 PM Gord Tomlin <
[email protected]> wrote:
On 2018-07-17 12:45, John McKown wrote:
I don't see anything in the announcement that suggests any new
functionality has been added to Metal C.
I think that the main push is that Metal C can be ordered as a stand alone
product, separate from XLC. I would hope at a substantially reduced price.
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