>Peter Farley writes: >>It would appear that either I was wrong in my assumption that COBOL had >>adopted the C/C++ back end or else in adopting it they restricted the >>possible values which can be used to z990/z890 and up.
COBOL adoped the Java JIT backend, and C/C++ will be adopting the same backend, as will PL/I, in the future. >Additional ARCH settings would have required additional testing, >presumably. I can see the wisdom in spending those testing resources in Exactly, and since z990 was shipped in 2003, we thought that was covering most customers. When I have asked customers this year what hardware they were using, it was usually z10 or higher. Quite a few were on EC12 already. I am sure we will have a few on pre-z990 hardware who want COBOL V5, but we hope they will read the Licensed Program Specification and not buy COBOL V5 until after they upgrade their hardware. (The biggest opportunity for performance improvement with new COBOL is with newest hardware anyway, COBOL V4 is very efficient on pre-z990 hardware) Cheers, TomR >> COBOL is the Language of the Future! << ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
