What version of Cobol are you running now? I would also look at the migration guides for z/OS V2.1 and COBOL
For cobol: http://publibfp.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/c1473830.pdf For z/OS V2.1: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/zos_migration_manuals.html Also, see if and when Marna Walle provides a migration presentation for v2.1. And there are many system libraries that are PDS/E datasets. JES2 has some, as well as other products. So you are running PDS/Es at this time. So long as you keep your PDS/E maint up to date, you should not have issues. Lizette -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Thomas Berg Sent: Friday, September 06, 2013 2:54 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: z/OS 2.1 and tools like COBOL 5.1, Fault Analyzer, Debug Tool, etc. We are going to eventually install 2.1 in the future. Besides the OS we have to decide how handle the new COBOL 5.1 and it's dependencies towards Fault Analyzer, Debug Tool and other productivity tools. E g which version/release is required for a certain product to work with another product. And can we upgrade to the latest version of e g Fault Analyzer (that otherwise comes with 2.1) at our z/OS 1.13 and get it working ? As a way to take possible problems in advance of the install of 2.1. With COBOL 5.1, AFAIK, comes also the requirement of the loadlibraries to be PDSE. Which we DON'T have today, neither in production or test systems. Do anyone have experiences of these (potential) problems ? Can you let me take part of them I would be grateful! I understand that some at this list have installed and run z/OS 2.1, but have you used COBOL or the other tools ? Med Vänlig Hälsning Thomas Berg ___________________________________________________________________ Thomas Berg Specialist zOS\RQM\IT Delivery SWEDBANK AB (Publ) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
