>> On the other hand, >> we know that we need to do AMODE 64 COBOL someday, but not one customer >> has asked IBM COBOL development to do it yet. >> > >I find that difficult to believe. Perhaps the validity of your assertion >depends on one's definition of the word "asked".
True! My definitions... Customers= people who use COBOL on z/OS to run their companies Asked= submitting formal requirements to SHARE (or IBM directly) Bill Klein is right, there is a SHARE req that refers to 64 bit and to COBOL, but it asks for the ability for COBOL to interoperate with 64-bit C/C++, which could be taken as "provide a way for AMODE(31) COBOL to call and be called by 64 bit C/C++ executables": 1. IBM should provide compiler and run-time enhancements that allow COBOL to interoperate with the 64 bit - AMODE(64) - LE run-time and C/C++ 64 bit executabls that will be available with zOS 1.6 and subsequent releases. This can be done by making available tools and appropriate information to other compiler vendors if IBM does not see a market for doing so We will soon have a requirement submitted asking for AMODE(64) COBOL, so we can scratch that off the list of things in the way :-) Of course, we at IBM have been discussing this very thing for years, as someone else posted, we don't have to wait for customers to ask. On the other hand, if people ask for things they get more attention. Cheers, TomR >> COBOL is the Language of the Future! << ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
