Ken MacKenzie wrote: >We are in the process of upgrading from COBOL 4.2 to 5.1 and, let me tell you, >it's been a nightmare.
It will be a nightmare. One question to the OP: Are your COBOL programs calling to or are called from other programs compiled in languages like C++, Assembler, PL/I, etc? Then there are compatibility issues with calls to / from DB systems as well to their datasets. Are these systems compatibile with your new COBOL? > ... and again, no matter how much you stress to developers, they'll try to > wait till the last minute. They will. Trust me... :-( And the users of those programs don't want any downtime! Go figure. >In the first release of COBOL 5, there was no AMODE(24) support. That has now >been changed ... Sorry to bother you, but with what PTFs / APARs? Just curious if you don't mind please. >Whereas in previous versions of ECOBOL a minimum and maximum record length did >not have to be specified when defining a variable file, v5.1 will return a >file status of '04' if any record is less than or greater than the minimum / >maximum specified. Good catch! Thanks for telling. Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
