Thanks, but we have gone through the documentation. What I'm out for is the *experiences* that people have. There are nearly always surprises in cases like this - at least from our hurtful experience...
Best Regards Thomas Berg ___________________________________________________________________ Thomas Berg Specialist zOS\RQM\IT Delivery SWEDBANK AB (Publ) > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Lizette Koehler > Sent: Friday, September 06, 2013 12:34 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: z/OS 2.1 and tools like COBOL 5.1, Fault Analyzer, Debug > Tool, etc. > > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
