Understood. Thanks! I am definitely going to take a look a zcobol, "just for fun". Frank
>________________________________ > From: Don Higgins <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Saturday, July 6, 2013 4:15 AM >Subject: Re: Future of COBOL based on RDz policies was Re: RDz or >RDzEnterprise developers > > >Frank, all > >I saw some of the floating point usage type names used in a COBOL standard >proposed draft online during the development. I added the types for IBM >specific HFP type names which are IBM specific as opposed to international BFP >or DFP standards based. The type names used could be easily changed in the >zcobol open source once there was agreement on how to define all nine specific >floating point formats implemented in IBM hardware which I think would be a >requirement for the IBM version of COBOL if it is to be used to process data >from other programs that support any of the 9 floating point types. > >But my only intent in posting response about the zcobol floating point support >was to provide an example of what that support might look like. zcobol is >still an unfinished open source project with many other standard COBOL >features still missing, and I have fully retired from the zcobol and z390 >development effort as of last year. > >Don Higgins >[email protected] >www.don-higgins.net > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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
