On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:52:07 -0500, Thomas David Rivers <[email protected]> wrote:
>Ed Gould wrote: >> --- On Fri, 1/9/09, R.S. <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >>>From: R.S. <[email protected]> >>>Subject: Re: AIX gets 64 bit COBOL but still none for Z/os ... >>>To: [email protected] >>>Date: Friday, January 9, 2009, 7:56 AM >>>Is there any reason to have 64-bit >>>COBOL on z/OS ? >>>Of course except satisfaction when watching AMODE 64 in >>>ISPF member list... >>> >>>-- Radoslaw Skorupka >>>Lodz, Poland >> >> >> >> Radoslaw: > > The answer is always to write an assembler program to do it. But there are fewer and fewer HLASM programmers. And I'd bet most companies want to discontinue it entirely because COBOL is more maintainable by the normal programming staff (no questions about the abnormal programming staff, please!). > >Just to add a quick note to that, a popular option >for our users is to write a quick-n-dirty C function >to handle the 64-bit data (directly callable from 31-bit >COBOL). Requires a C compiler. And that costs more money. Not cost effective if the only use is to access 64 bit memory from COBOL. > >I'm just suggesting an alternative to an assembly program >that our users have found helpful. > > - Dave Rivers - -- 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
