Peter:
I agree with you. BUT as we have heard many times IBM doesn't see a
need for this and have relegated COBOL to the dust bin of history. We
have had discussions on here about the need but until there is
critical mass IBM will not consider this as a "need".
Then IBM will probably come up with a half cocked idea like mandating
PDSE's.
Ed
On Jan 27, 2016, at 2:00 PM, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote:
Sorry Ed, many shops and application programmers disagree strongly
with that opinion. AMODE64 for COBOL for us is a must-get-to for
large in-core tables and many other application needs, in the same
way and for many of the same reasons that 31-bit COBOL was a
necessity in the 24-bit COBOL era when the 8 or 10 Mib private
region size was the constraint.
It isn't for large *programs* that AMODE64 is needed, but for large
*data*. For sure I'm not about to write or support program code
that occupies more than 2GiB of storage, but surely you can see the
extreme usefulness of multi-GiB of main-storage data accessed by a
program.
Peter
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On Jan 27, 2016, at 11:25 AM, Barry Lichtenstein wrote:
<Snipped>
Note that the binder has been producing program objects for over 25
years. It is difficult to make significant enhancements to OBJ
object module and load module formats. Some important things have
been added such as AMODE 64 and quad-word alignment.
[email protected]
Since COBOL does not and will not in the foreseeable future need
amode 64 I find the argument un helpful.
Ed
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