Charles Mills wrote:
I was going to post about this but could not remember whether it was still
under NDA or not and was too busy to research.
Yes! Customers told IBM what has been posted on this thread: "COBOL v5.2 is out of the
question because we have existing load modules in (PDS) libraries that are *never* not allocated to
a job on one system or another." (Plus "we have tons of JCL and no budget to revamp it
all in some clever fashion that would facilitate a phased migration to new (PDSE) libraries.")
This is IBM's solution. Just as the COBOL Binary Optimizer is IBM's solution to
"recompiling is out of the question -- we have no idea whether we have source and/or
whether it is current."
<snip>
Actually, if I recall correctly, the IEFOPZxx function was originally
built solely with the optimizer in mind. The realization that it had
value for COBOL V5 PDS/PDSE conversions came to us after someone (you
know who you are...and thanks!) at the TDM pointed it out.
It's certainly not the first time we've built something with one purpose
in mind to find that it's got other uses; sometimes the "other uses"
turn out to have more value than the originally intended purpose. It
happens.
--
John Eells
IBM Poughkeepsie
ee...@us.ibm.com
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