For anyone (in an IBM mainframe environment) who missed it, in today's
announcement available at:
http://www.ibm.com/isource/cgi-bin/goto?it=usa_annred&on=906-113
IBM is "withdrawing from marketing September 6, 2006" the CCCA (COBOL
and CICS
Conversion Aid) STAND-ALONE product. This is their product for doing
automated
conversions from OS/VS COBOL (or VS COBOL II) to a currently supported
IBM
mainframe COBOL dialect.
HOWEVER, the functionality will (as stated in that announcement) still
be
available as a PART of the "IBM Debug Tool Utilities and Advanced
Functions
V6.1" product, see the announcement at;
http://www.ibm.com/isource/cgi-bin/goto?it=usa_annred&on=205-217
If you still have (old) OS/VS COBOL programs (that you think you will
eventually
want to upgrade to a supported compiler) *AND* you use "3rd party"
debugging
tools, you might want to consider buying the "stand-alone" product
before Sept
5.
--
Bill Klein
wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com
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