-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Clark Morris Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 8:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: TSO TRANSMIT of PDS member <SNIP> I also believe COBOL is in a maintenance mode with no vision for the future when it doesn't support 64 bit and XP link, yet the only OO support for COBOL involves Java and there is now a 64 bit Java.
<SNIP> I have a Fujitsu OO COBOL running on Windows. I believe Fujitsu also has it available for Linux. I have even written a program or two under OO (which is rather interesting since I still haven't gotten my hands around the OO concept - BMK.) Some years ago I had the chance to ask COBOL developers about ESA. They said that they were not going to support Access Registers unless and until someone demonstrated a need. Well, unless and until someone demonstrates a need for IBM to implement a real OO COBOL, or z/ARCH exploitation, IBM probably won't do it (I know, IBM sales/marketing can't sell ice-cubes to residents of the Sahara -- long old joke about this). But give them a US$1B market and they will figure out how to get all over it. So if the academic world asks, or a large enough company needs to migrate from some platform that Fujitsu supports with OO-COBOL, watch what happens. Meanwhile, if IMS, DB2, etc. are using 64 bit, but responding to SQL in 31 bit, why would COBOL have to change? Unless you can demonstrate that you need a table larger than 2GB... (Which I think PACBELL could make an argument for it, considering what they used ESA for back around 1994-5). So is COBOL really in maint mode? How about PL/1? What about CICS[/TS]? Regards, Steve Thompson ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
