I just found the following statement in the DB2 V8 Installation Guide: "If the DYNAM option of COBOL II is being used, the IMS RESLIB DD statement must precede the reference to prefix.SDSNLOAD in the JOBLIB or STEPLIB statement."
That implies to me that COBOL II load modules are specifically supported. The manual is also littered with references to COBOL for MVS & VM, but they look like "failures to update" to me, not statements of support. Ted, the **pre-compiler** appears to not support preparing source code for "old" COBOLs. Is that what you meant? That is not what was being discussed by Mike Bell in the note you replied to. He's talking about running without re-compiling. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 2:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: DB2 pre-compile V7 bind and run V8? REALLY???? No program compiled under "older" COBOL is supported for RUNNING under DB2 V8??? Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 2:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: DB2 pre-compile V7 bind and run V8? >There are DB2 programs that have not been precompiled or compiled in a decade and still run. NOT anymore. >Yes the generated code (mostly the generated plist) has version identifiers in it and as far as I know, IBM will take an apar if the program doesn't work. IBM has told us no COBOL/VS, no COBOL II, no MVS COBOL, and even Enterprise COBOL V3.2 or lower is not supported. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
