Do you know if you could use PD v12 in a z/OS 1.13 system ? (If so we could implement PD v12 before taking on z/OS v2.1 and/or COBOL 5.1.)
Best Regards Thomas Berg ___________________________________________________________________ Thomas Berg Specialist zOS\RQM\IT Delivery SWEDBANK AB (Publ) > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Bohn, Dale > Sent: Friday, September 06, 2013 3:16 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: z/OS 2.1 and tools like COBOL 5.1, Fault Analyzer, Debug > Tool, etc. > > Enterprise COBOL V5 uses DRAWF records in an non-loaded class instead of > a side file as was used previously. > COBOL V5 is the first of the compilers to convert to DRAWF (C already > supported it), this is part of IBM's change to have all the compilers > share the backend code generator ( same one used by Java JIT). > The PD Tools V12 or above ( FA, DB) are required for DRAWF support. > The non-loaded class are only supported in the PM3(?) load modules which > the binder will only put into a PDSE. > So IBM is not saying you have to convert your load libraries to PDSE, > you just would be able to use any of the new compilers in the future. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
