Willie, COBOL 4.2 is supported with z/OS V2.1. This is how I found it out (and you can use this process in general, to see any product that is supported with z/OS V2.1):
1) Look in Appendix B of the z/OS V2.1 Planning for Installation book, specifically Table 11. This book has been available since z/OS V2.1 was GA announced. 2) If it is not listed in that table (which COBOL is not), then look at the website that has EOS dates already given by a helpful poster: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/support/lifecycle/ . If the product is NOT EOS and is NOT listed in Table 11, then it's supported on z/OS V2.1. (COBOL 4.2 has had no EOS date announced.) Another extremely helpful way to find EOS products is to use the z/OSMF Software Management function - it is very slick and is specific to your system! I have never seen website http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/prodguid/v1r0/clarity/osForProduct.html until now. Looking at it, it doesn't have the operating system level itself in the table. It does list Communications Server from the operating system, and lots of middleware. This, unfortunately, does not contain all the stack software and only appears to contain the "Software Group" products. I can't speak about how that is maintained or provided, sorry. I do know about how we provide the requirements for the operating system, though. As always to make sure you are at the correct service level of a product, use the handy SMP/E FIXCAT IBM.TargetSystem-RequiredService.z/OS.V2R1 to do that. -Marna WALLE z/OS System Install IBM Server Technology Group, Poughkeepsie ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
