The current LE "COBOL Migration" manual lists a fair amount of analysis and work to determine and or provide for upward compatibility. I believe them.
When a customer has hundreds of "not recently touched" business-critical programs, and no one who knows how they work, and no budget for conversion, and typical corporate tolerance for risk (i.e., near zero) it is a HUGE obstacle, and there is no reasoning it away, I fear. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Klein Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 9:50 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: General question on licensing "obsolete" IBM products I think that 97% compatible is GROSSLY underestimated. Although this may not have always been true, but today, there are ALMOST no cases where the BEHAVIOR is different. I suppose that if you are A) still using ISAM or B) TCAM Or C) other very old software, you might have a problem HOWEVER< as long as you are running under z/OS, then you really, REALLY, do not want the OS/VS COBOL run-time (either concatenated before or after LE). If your OS/VS COBOL programs were link-edited with NORES, then you don't need ANY run-time library for them (and what you do have won't make any difference). Can you actually give some reason TODAY not to use LE as the run-time for all non-NORES OS/VS COBOL programs - or are you just saying that your remember or heard that there USED to be a problem? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
