On 2 Sep 2012 10:34:55 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Clark Morris <cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca>wrote: >> >> COBOL seems to be fading on UNIX and Windows platforms (far cheaper to >> develop in other languages due to run-time licensing requirements, >> especially for ISVs). Packages (SAP anyone) are reducing the number >> of COBO? programs needed and many of the systems currently in use are >> long in tooth and brittle. The COBOL development environment has >> lagged behind. > ><snip> > >Differentiating z from LUW, sure, there isn't a lot of COBOL on LUW. But >there doesn't seem to be much else on z, at least in business. I'm >constantly amazed by the number of long-time z/OS applications folks who >ONLY know COBOL. Given something simple for which Rexx is clearly >appropriate, they'll write a COBOL program. > >As for lagging behind, if Tom Ross's promise is correct, maybe it's all >about to become available! 6 years to a decade too late. IBM at times seems to show a lack of understanding of the word strategic. If decimal floating point was worth spending the money to implement on z (and I think i and p), why wasn't it worth implementing in COBOL? If 64 bit was worth implementing for CICS and DB2, why not COBOL to play better in those environments?
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