>Well I just inherited COBOL support and our programmers have been trying to= > debug an issue with CICS COBOL, seems Ent COBOL V4 was still being used in= > CICS TS 5.4. the tool used is Endeavor, long story short, V6 was being tes= >ted in some processes but never updated in others.=20 >my question is mostly a sanity check, from what I've read the DB2 pre compi= >ler and the CICS translators are no longer needed, COBOL parms and options = >are now used if these are DB2 or CICS programs ? >this is valid ?
You can still use the separate Db2 precompiler and CICS translator! In fact, migrating to the new integrated method is not always easy, so I would not recommend moving to a new compiler AND a new precompile/translate process at the same time! We often see issues with the Db2 precompiler allowing things that should not have been allowed, like text after END-EXEC or literals longer than 160 bytes, and these won't work with the integrated SQL coprocessor (COBOL SQL compiler option). 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: INFO IBM-MAIN
