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Ken MacKenzie Pramerica Systems Ireland Limited is a private company limited by shares incorporated and registered in the Republic of Ireland with registered number 319900 and registered office at 6th Floor, South Bank House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. From: Elardus Engelbrecht <[email protected]> To: [email protected], Date: 01/04/2015 11:24 Subject: Re: migrating compiler versions Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> 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 [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
