On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 16:11:36 -0500, David Andrews <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 14:11 -0600, John McKown wrote: >> OK - how much money, in the form of licensing cost, are you willing to pay >> to get 64 bit addressing in COBOL? > >What I already pay today, for a current COBOL compiler backed by >developers and support staff. > >-- >David Andrews Unless I totally misunderstand you, you want enhancements to COBOL for the price of the current COBOL. I have a question. Are you paying the same for Enterprise COBOL that you paid for OS/VS COBOL 2.4 (in adjusted dollars, of course)? (what about ANS COBOL? - the freebie) No? You're paying more? Then you did pay more for a "better" COBOL compiler. And, hopefully, you got more use from it. But, then, you didn't pay "up front" (as I may have implied) and you didn't really have a choice, unless you don't mind being unsupported. Until recently, we actually still used the OS/VS COBOL 2.4 compiler and library for one application. It was so weirdly coded that conversion to Enterprise COBOL was delayed (they first tried when VS COBOL II was installed). Wish I knew more, but I successfully avoided getting in the middle of that mess. -- John ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
