This survey is BS. On the first page, it touts interoperability between 31-bit and 64-bit. This is only a thing because of the ridiculous decision to use XPLINK linkage for 64-bit Cobol. The z/OS architects made that a non-issue with F4SA, F5SA, etc. LE designers made some bad decisions when they designed XPLINK applications incompatible with standard applications, then they compounded that when they designed XPLINK-64 to be incompatible with XPLINK and standard applications. As an example, there are three formats of the CAA. One for standard linkage, one for XPLINK and a third for XPLINK-64, and they are not compatible.
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