And unless things have changed drastically, the COBOL compiler license for z/OS involves a significant charge. Whoever in the company handles software invoices from IBM should be well aware whether or not you have a license (and of course IBM knows and can tell your company what licenses they currently have).
The COBOL runtime environment is handled by LE (Language Environment), which supports execution of compiled programs from multiple languages and is included in the z/OS base. The actual language Compilers for z/OS (COBOL, PL/I, C, FORTRAN) are not a part of the z/OS base -- each has a separate license and added cost, and the charges tend to be high enough that you wouldn't have them around for casual use or to play with, but only if they were actively required to support the business. Joel C Ewing On 12/17/20 7:00 PM, Frank Swarbrick wrote: > If you don't have COBOL developers in house it seems unlikely you would have > purchased the COBOL compiler. > Can't the vendor supply you with binary executables that they have compiled? > > ________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of > CarlosM Martinez <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2020 5:57 PM > To: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: COBOL LIB > > Just looking for the BATCH compiler for the VENDOR... If we have it. > ... -- Joel C. Ewing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
