I was on the beta for this (hope it's OK to reveal that now!). While DPF is not supported in the COBOL language itself, DPF is used (when available, by specifying the appropriate ARCH level) under the covers.
It's still not clear to me the situations when a business programmer would want an explicit field to be DFP instead of PD. Perhaps someone can give a good example of such? >________________________________ > From: John Gilmore <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2013 3:43 PM >Subject: Re: IBM Enterprise COBOL V5 announced > > >I had hoped that the Enterprise COBOL support for DFP that is >apparently in the womb of time would make it into this release, but no >. . . > >Still, COBOL is now a much better language than an examination of most >of the source programs written it it would suggest. > >John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
