Ed, You're either pulling my leg, or accidentally conflating two things, I think.
"As the result of a SHARE requirement, we were able to apply resources to getting the COBOL Performance Tuning Paper updated for COBOL V4R2 • The last time it was updated was for COBOL V3R1, 2001" That's from a Tom Ross presentation at SHARE in Anaheim in 2011. With V5.1 the Performance Tuning document appeared 14 months after the product. With V6.1 the Performance Tuning document appeared at GA. I don't think anyone will ever seriously ask for the documentation of the COBOL compiler messages. OK, individuals will, even individual organisations, but the wider response will be "you want IBM to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on something which does no more than restate the text of the messages"? It's like the people who "comment" lines like the following in a COBOL program: MOVE some-descriptive-data-name TO some-other-descriptive-data-name COBOL runtime messages are documented, in the Language Environment Runtime Messages, and they always have been, in various places. As far as I'm aware, there has never been any documentation of the compiler diagnostic messages for any IBM Mainframe compiler, going back to Full American Naitonal Standard COBOL at least. If there are individual messages that someone thinks are unclear (and it should actually be so, to have any point in the process), then let IBM know and they will look into it. I reported one, and my source says Tom Ross himself fixed it (a V4 message referred to a V3 document). Now, if anyone does want to commission the documentation of the Enterprise COBOL diagnostic messages, I'm available. On Sunday, 20 March 2016 00:21:07 UTC, Ed Gould wrote: > It figures. They probably dropped it (again) figuring no one would > notice. > Time for a SHARE req. Anyone? > > Ed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
