I'd like to draw your attention to another very recent COBOL innovation, the IBM COBOL Binary Optimizer for z/OS. This experimental tool is available here:
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/groups/community/BinaryOptimizer Unlike Enterprise COBOL 5.1, the COBOL Binary Optimizer is not ready for production and may never be. It's an experimental tool available at no charge, and you can try it out to see how it works. As its name suggests, the COBOL Binary Optimizer can read a COBOL program module binary (without source code) and adjust the binary's machine instructions to optimize for newer zEnterprise machine models. The COBOL Binary Optimizer currently recognizes program module binaries compiled with Enterprise COBOL 4.x, Enterprise COBOL 3.x, and COBOL for OS/390 and VM Version 2. z/OS 1.11 or higher is required to run the tool, and the tool can target z10, z196/z114, and zEC12/zBC12 model generations. The Optimizer does not require the program source code. Please do not use this tool for production deployments. As mentioned, the tool is experimental, an early peak into some possible (but not promised) future COBOL capabilities in future compilers and runtimes. For production optimization (and many other benefits) your first step is to start compiling COBOL code with Enterprise COBOL 5.1. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Sipples GMU VCT Architect Executive (Based in Singapore) E-Mail: sipp...@sg.ibm.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
