You do understand it correctly - and there's more. It has a hardware requirement of z990/z890; you cannot run OS/VS COBOL in the same enclave as COBOL 5.1; it is recommended to have a 200M region size to compile; and when you do, you can specify the architecture level at compile time in order to exploit hardware features - which, if you specify the incorrect ARCH level, you are guaranteed to have your program abend.
All the above information was extracted from Tom Ross's presentation at SHARE, and there's plenty more. If you can't download from SHARE, I suggest you Google "COBOL 5.1 Migration Guide" and download that. HTH, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Lopez, Sharon Sent: Monday, March 17, 2014 1:12 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Enterprise Cobol 5.1 Has anyone migrated to Enterprise Cobol 5.1 from earlier enterprise releases? I guess that I was really surprised that it will not run on z/OS 1.12 and that the executables can only reside in a PDSE. Am I understanding this correctly? Sharon Lopez z/OS Systems Programmer N.C. Office of Information Technology Services 919.754.6432 Office 919.398.8638 Cell 919.754.6000 ITS Service Desk sharon.lo...@nc.gov<mailto:sharon.lo...@nc.gov> http://www.its.state.nc.us<http://www.its.state.nc.us/> ________________________________ E-mail correspondence to and from this address may be subject to the North Carolina Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties by an authorized state official. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
