Frank Swarbrick wrote:
On 10/9/2009 at 7:15 AM, in message
<[email protected]>, john gilmore
<[email protected]> wrote:
These things said, it must also be conceded that the important new features
that IBM has added to Enterprise COBOL, e.g., pointers and address
modification (the curious COBOL terminology for substring operations), have
been very little used. (Pointer usage, which would greatly simplify many
COBOL CICS APs, is still, for example, exiguous in them.)
Do you mean "reference modification", added with Cobol II? I use it quite
often. And POINTER as well, when it makes sense.
Significant (in my view) features new with Enterprise COBOL have been:
* CICS Integrated Translator
* Function pointers
* Unicode support
* XML support
+ parse
+ generate
+ namespaces
+ parse with validation by schema
Of the above, my understanding is XML support is used by
a number of shops; the rest of it, probably not so much
Other new features (not as signifciant) in Enterprise COBOL:
* Multithreading support
* Function pointers
* OO COBOL and improved Java interoperability
* Increased maximum table size (to 128MB)
* Compiler options in external file pointed to by //SYSOPTF
* Changes in Debug tool support
* BLOCK0 compiler option
* Support for underscore ( _ ) in user-defined names
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