Clark Morris <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dave Rivers wrote:
> >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).
>
> Since there is NOTHING in the 1985 COBOL standard, let alone the 2002
> standard that would prohibit having a 10 gigabyte table, why should
> someone have to program a work around in 2009? How long has the z
> series had 64 bit addressing? When did C/C++ get it? When did DB2
> get it? If 64 bit is good and useful for Websphere and if Websphere
> is strategic, then why can't COBOL routines run in the 64 bit
> Websphere?
Very good points....
I was just saying that, given realities - here's a work-around
some people have found helpful.
Of course, if we want to rail against realities - that's a different
beastie all together :-) And, I can completely understand it :-)
- Dave Rivers -
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