John, all Well its flattering to think that IBM, Micro Focus, or Variant all of which have taken an interest in z390, might be interested in trying to buy rights to zcobol. But no offers so far. The plan is still to release zcobol as part of z390 under GPL in time for SHARE presentation on March 3. At the suggestion of Bill Klein, I've started work this week on testing zcobol with the NIST ANSII COBOL 85 tests available here:
http://www.itl.nist.gov/div897/ctg/cobol_form.htm It comes in 2 GB z type zip (I used Winzip on Windows) which expands to 28 GB single ascii source file with the first program being EXEC85.CBL (2256 lines) which extracts all the other COBOL test programs. I'll have a report on results for zcobol initial release at SHARE. It doesn't test things like EXEC CICS or Enterprise COBOL extensions such as EXTENDED-FLOAT, but it sure looks like a great test of basic COBOL syntax options such as OPTIONAL on SELECT, comment phases in INSTALLATION, and use of double versus single quotes (now all supported). Don Higgins d...@higgins.net www.zcobol.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
