On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 8:26 PM, Clark Morris <[email protected]>wrote:
> Read the current manuals. As someone who has manipulated the SMF 30 > records using COBOL WITHOUT resorting to Assembler, I can state that > for much problem program state work, COBOL is quite adequate. I have > also created a system usage report in COBOL that read files of IDR > records created by an assembler program and parsed source program > files to determine CALL and COPY usage. Enterprise COBOL is a very > powerful language and adding the 2002 improvements would make it even > more so. Well, I'm willing to believe that. I certainly don't claim to be a COBOL jock, nor is my most common source for COBOL help. So I should probably just shut up (hey, stop cheering!). -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
