Also those who have issues moving to PDS/E loadlibs for COBOL 5. > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Charles Mills > Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2016 4:01 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Automatic Binary Optimizer (ABO) > > IBM is pitching to two audiences: > > 1. Don't have or are not sure have the current source code. > 2. No time to test. IBM is touting reduced testing requirements. Opinions may > differ. > > I am no expert but if I were going to migrate my COBOL environment I would > go to V6. I don't think V5 offers any advantages over V6. V5 has some > problems apparently with very large source programs, such as code- > generator-produced source, which are ameliorated by V6's use of AMODE64 > (for the compiler itself, not for compiled programs). > > Charles > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Frank Swarbrick > Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2016 6:26 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Automatic Binary Optimizer (ABO) > > If you have and are using V5 (or 6) what is the point of using ABO? We don't > have any plans to get ABO. We're just going to use COBOL V5. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to > [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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