Dave, I did wait until it seemed to me that discussion of the original topic had petered out.
Moreover, it seemed to me that it was oddly focused. Slow but steady progress is certainly being made, but z/OS is still full of gaps in the facilities it makes available for work above the bar, through many of which one could drive the proverbial tank. When, for example, the HLASM does not yet support doubleword set-symbol arithmetic . . . Or again, your product, z/XDC, closes the gaps that were being lamented more than adequately; and the notion that IBM software is somehow 'free' and that of ISVs is not is among the sillier ones that have currency here. 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
