Amen on that one David. I am in that swamp right now with a single thread 
legacy beast in Cobol..

Scott ford
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> On Dec 11, 2013, at 4:06 PM, "David L. Craig" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On 13Dec11:1225-0800, Ed Jaffe wrote:
>> 
>> Why would *anyone* want to run traditional CICS COBOL in the
>> restricted environment of an SRB? The TCB environment is so much
>> more robust!
>> 
>> If the SRB is an Enclave SRB enabled for redirection to  zIIP, then
>> IMHO such use of the "zIIP enablement API" is in violation of the
>> License Agreement between ISVs and IBM -- assuming (<== DISCLAIMER!)
>> other ISVs all use the same agreement we do. Of course, it's always
>> possible that IBM, for a substantial licensing fee, has different
>> T&Cs with select ISVs. If so, I am not privy to those agreements.
> 
> More to the point, have the COBOL products folks ever TESTED
> the RTE in SRB mode?  I would most certainly want assurance that
> is fully supported before I started coding such an unusual beast.
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