On 6 Jan 2009 13:09:50 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >>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 > >There is no "EXTENDED-FLOAT" in Enterprise COBOL. >There are floating-point data types, COMP-1, COMP-2, and "external >floating-point". There is a "FLOAT-EXTENDED" that is a part of the 2002 >COBOL Standard that we have not yet implemented in Enterprise COBOL, >maybe you are thinking of that?
So what is the status of USAGE BIT and the other usages related to the 2002 standard for which there are existing SHARE requirements? Proper implementation of the standard floating point USAGEs (IEEE floating point) would allow COBOL to cleanly communicate with JAVA while leaving any existing COMP-1 and COMP-2 data as hex floating point. And is IBM COBOL going to support the decimal floating point that has been implemented at least on the z series and that was sponsored by IBM? > >Cheers, >TomR >> COBOL is the Language of the Future! << > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
