The program I was talking about was 1981, pre COBOL II. We did have the Capex Optimizer :)
We never saw COBOL II, jumped to 3 point something and are pretty much still there. > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Bill Woodger > Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2016 1:44 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Bypassing s322 > > Oh, we're talking about years after 1981 :-) > > Probably the middle-late '80 to early 90s. > > You don't need to assert anything, it is documented. Could look it up and > make those dates a bit more accurate, but it doesn't matter, does it? > > Unfortunately, for the potential Herculean effort, pre-COBOL II for sure > allowed negative zeros in the sense that there was no code to prevent them > appearing as results in a COBOL program. The dates for COBOL II and the > OSes you can run or Hercules would preclude using Hercules to show the > first compiler which killed negative zeros in actual action. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to > lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
