Key question is whether all those old Cobol applications are using LE at 1.12 level or are some pre-LE runtime? Chances are the outsourcer will not have the right pre-LE runtime available, so you'd have to port the matching runtime with the application. Being on 1.12 is very unfortunate as LE z/OS 2.2 introduced some incompatibilities which IBM rectified back to z/OS 1.13 (as LE guarantees upward and downward compatibility for all supported releases). Your applications may or may not run into these; if they do, it is fixable only by recompile under supported levels on 2.4 -- which will be very expensive bill from that outsourcer. Could be a lot cheaper to keep that z10BC running :)
On Tue, Aug 2, 2022 at 4:22 AM John McKown <john.archie.mck...@gmail.com> wrote: > My current employer is still running stuff on z/OS 1.12 on a z10BC. They > are shutting it down. But they have mentioned an "archive solution" for ??? > apps which might not make the "hard" decommission date. > > Their latest idea is basically outsourcing to an "on demand" service. It is > running 2.4 . I am curious if they might run into problem with old COBOL > code with the new LE. It's just curiosity because I will not be involved, > supposedly. I am not sure about EasyTrieve Plus either. > > Thanks for any thoughts. My actual work for them will end, supposedly end > 1Q23, but my employment & pay will last until 1Aug23, regardless (a kind of > severance). > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
