Uh, I was talking about a small zBox being used to do nothing but
compiles. Not a non-zArch platform. I know of a company that
provides this service. You off-load your compiles to them which
takes MSU burn off your system to their box -- can cut your cost
of compiles.
Especially if you take COBOL 6.x off-prem to such a box, since it
EATS MSUs. Or so it has in my experience.
Regards,
Steve Thompson
On 1/12/22 14:27, Carmen Vitullo wrote:
I've actually been a part of a project that did just that. tons
of $$$ spent to offload development to and Intel platform, and
offload MF processes to a grid like solution, tons of $$$ spent
and the solution did not meet expectation.
Carmen
On 1/12/2022 1:09 PM, Steve Thompson wrote:
Problem is, if one is doing cloud compiling off-prem, then one
must do external translate for compilers.
Sent from my iPhone — small keyboarf, fat fungrs, stupd spell
manglr. Expct mistaks
On Jan 12, 2022, at 7:45 AM, Jon
Butler<[email protected]> wrote:
I might add to the existing comments that the internal SQL
CoProcessor and CICS Translator have been available since
2001...but why rush?
Some of the new COBOL 6 language features are not supported
by the external translator, COBOL's TRUE/FALSE for example
will grind the external translator to a halt. More COBOL
changes are coming that will not be supported.
Watch our for bad coding practices because the COBOL 6
compiler will enforce rules. Zero subscripts are treated as
a value 1 in COBOL 4, but fail in COBOL 6. Of course these
have always been the "rules", its just that the IBM compilers
did not enforce them.
Cheers,
Jon Butler
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