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"

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