Well, gee guys, you can't always have it both ways. "I want feature X but I don't want to be forced into prerequisite Y." Sometimes it does not work that way.
Sometimes there is a "hard" reason -- feature X is truly built on top of Y -- and sometimes developers just do things a certain way. "I had to re-write Z to be able to implement X, and my new Z takes advantage of the facilities available with Y." And Yes, I am sure IBM wrestles internally with the tradeoffs: "we want customers to upgrade to a z13, but we don't want to totally alienate those who do not." Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Bill Woodger Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2016 7:52 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: COBOL v5 On Tuesday, 26 January 2016 15:19:25 UTC, Bernd Oppolzer wrote: > In the PL/1 mailing list, Peter Elderon (IBM) explicitly stated that > there are no plans to force the PL/1 users to PDSEs, so IMO this is > not true for PL/1, at least. > > Kind regards > > Bernd > Perusing the latest PL/I Programming Guide, there are many, many instances where if you want to use a particular thing, you need to use a PDSE for the executable output, because it is a Program Object. You're not "forced" to use a PDSE in exactly the way you're not forced to use any feature which requires a Program Object. That is equally true with COBOL. Use V4.2 or earlier. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
