>With reference modification available, the only things that are >awkward in COBOL are bit switches and the 1 byte binary fields. I >have written usage programs that parse the SMF 14/15, 30 and 64 >records. If IBM would just implement the data types in the 2002 >standard including the new floating point usages as IEEE, COBOL the >above caveats would go away and COBOL would play nicer with JAVA. >COMP-1 and COMP-2 could be retained for hex floating point so a single >COBOL program could have both types of floating point. YES there is a >SHARE requirement for this.
Java does not have Decimal Floating Point yet, and COBOL already plays very nicely with automatic conversion from Java float to COBOL float and back again with direct calls. In any case, it is off topic, there is no Decimal Floating Point data in SMF records that I know of. Cheers, TomR >> COBOL is the Language of the Future! << ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
