I have not read every post in this thread. Has anyone else pointed out that this rather serious compatibility issue is not even mentioned until page 177 of the Migration Guide, where it rates a single short sentence fragment?
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Thomas Conley Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2013 8:40 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5 On 9/12/2013 8:12 AM, John Gilmore wrote: > Tom Conley wroter: > > <begin extract> > All due respect, the cost to IBM's customer base for converting all > COBOL executable libraries to PDSE will be measured in millions, if > not billions, of US dollars. > </end extract> > > [With] all due respect again, this is empty rhetoric. The last > Decennial Census, of 2010, yielded a US population aged 5-17 of > 53,980,105. Let us now assume, conservatively, that the members of > this group spent an arithmetic mean of US$1.00 per week on junk food > in 2010. > > The 'alarming' result? This group spent US$2,806,965,460 on junk food > in 2010! 'Almost' 3 billion dollars wasted! Etc., etc. The > context-free large-numbers gambit is an old one, but it persuades only > the already persuaded. > > John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN So there's no cost whatsoever to IBM's customer base for converting COBOL executable libraries from PDS to PDSE? My mistake. Here are some context-free, large-numbers gambit empty rhetoric numbers. Let's assume 1000 COBOL licenses in the world, with 100 executable datasets per license (IMNSHO, ridiculously conservative estimates). So that's 100,000 executable datasets. I'll set, again, a conservative estimate of $1,000 to convert the PDS to PDSE. Here is how I break that down. Planning - 1 hour. Allocating and copying - 1 hour. Change control paperwork - 2 hours. Implementation - 2 hours. Post-implementation followup - 2 hours. That's 8 hours at a fully-burdened rate of $125/hr. I haven't even figured in the cost of DASD. That's $100M US just to convert this small scenario I've laid out here. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
