"Clark Morris" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>... > On 8 Oct 2009 14:08:24 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: > <snip> > It could be done .... <much snippage>
For those in IBM-MAIN who don't follow such things. Clark has had long running "desires" of how it would like to see IBM COBOL development prioritize things. When voted upon by SHARE (LNGC project) members, many of the things that Clark wants are things that current IBM customers also want. HOWEVER, in most cases, those enhancements that IBM has delivered in recent releases and versions of Enterprise COBOL have received HIGHER priorities from customers (in and out of SHARE) that those things that Clark has asked for. I suspect that many (Possibly even most) existing IBM COBOL customers would like it if IBM COBOL development had "unlimited" resources for enhancements - ASSUMING that the cost of COBOL to their shops did not increase and that all future COBOL environments were %100 per cent upwardly (and downwardly) compatible. This isn't true and is unlike to ever be true. Therefore, similar to other specific IBM-MAIN participants who hate such things as LE, his repeated posts ranting bout specific issues (such as 64-bit COBOL and *non* decimal IEEE floating point) provide little service. OBVIOUSLY, if any other IBM-MAIN participant belongs to SHARE and wants to see some new/different enhancement request for Enterprise COBOL processed, I would encourage you to use the SHARE requirement process and/or marketing REQUEST procedures. I can certainly help you with the SHARE requirement process if you are interested in such. If you are interested in specific things that have already been voted upon by LNGC (such as 64-bit COBOL and/or IEEE "binary" Floating-Point), then I would be more than happy to provide you with information on the existing requirements and you submit a marketing REQUEST that references them. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
