On 17 Jun 2008 11:29:21 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >>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.
Tom, I was referring to the IEEE floating point which IBM should have supported using the new usages as soon as the 2002 standard became final. The automatic conversion has a cost which should be not have been incurred in the first place. For SMF, I was referring to the USAGE BIT and USAGE BINARY-CHARACTER (if I recall it correctly). By the way, when is COBOL going to support the decimal floating point? > >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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
