I cracked open a (metaphorical) history book, and I discovered that IBM introduced PDSEs in 1989 -- about 24 years ago as I write this.
I agree with John Gilmore. A 2013 PDSE prerequisite for Enterprise COBOL 5.1 is not too soon. I should point out that IBM announced no charge 90-day trials of CICS Transaction Server 5.1 and Enterprise COBOL 5.1. You can try these products for 90 days without worrying about single version charge (SVC) periods. You can confirm how much more efficiently your CPU-intensive COBOL applications run after recompiling, for example. You can also get acquainted with PDSEs and their impacts. (Did I actually just write that? :-)) By the way, I *frequently* encounter customers that don't submit SCRT reports with Enterprise COBOL correctly associated only with the LPARs where they run it. IBM receives SCRT reports where Enterprise COBOL is assumed to be running in every z/OS LPAR, and then IBM bills accordingly. (Thanks for that.) But Enterprise COBOL 5.1 now generates its very own Type 89 SMF records so you don't have to be aware of "NO89" (many aren't) and don't have to worry about it. Hurray for that too. Give the products a spin and kick the tires, at no additional charge. You'll probably like them very much. Unless perhaps you're the person John Gilmore is describing. :-) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Sipples GMU VCT Architect Executive (Based in Singapore) E-Mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
