Ah! My "yes you can" answer was technical, not legal. I am unaware of the licensing provisions (which may vary from country to country and situation to situation).
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Schwab Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2015 8:34 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: COBOL 4.2 support You can run COBOL 4 and COBOL 5 compilers for 1 year after licensing COBOL 5. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/bit.listserv.ibm-main/JpGuXqwBemI Be aware that due to IBM's (new) licensing policy, you will only be allowed to use COBOL 4 and COBOL 5 concurrently for one year, and again, no matter how much you stress to developers, they'll try to wait till the last minute. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
