CICS already dropped support for OS/VS Cobol. Since when an ISV jumped in and provide such support and it seems customers are happy regardless of the overhead if any and the additional fee. All of my clients convert their old OS/VS Cobol programs and see the performance benefits. Why should "active" customers pay for suporting very very old stuff. Just my 2 cents
Roland >>> On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 12:35:16 -0500, John P Kalinich wrote: >>> >>> >Mark Yuhas of the IBM Mainframe Discussion List >>> >wrote on 10/02/2008 12:27:32 PM: >>> > >>> >> Has IBM announced what release of LE will not support old COBOL runtime >>> >> environments, specifically OS/VS COBOL and VS COBOL II? >>> > >>> >LE is a runtime environment with OS/VS COBOL and VS COBOL II support. At > >>Perhaps one or more of the IBM folks on the thread might like to comment? > >I have proposed removing support for OS/VS COBOL programs from LE, maybe in >a future version of the operating system, whenever that might be. There are >several reason for this: >1) Customers have requested it to force their applications to move forward >2) It makes LE leaner and faster >3) Fewer and fewer customer have any OS/VS COBOL programs around anymore > >I am working on making an announcement of a statement of direction for this, >to give ample warning for those still using 1970's compilers :-) > >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
