On Sat, 11 Mar 2017 09:46:30 -0600, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> >>> IBMR Enterprise COBOL for z/OSR is a leading-edge, >>> >(except for 64-bit) > Leading Edge is just sales waffle, no content. Why, specifically, would "64-bit" (whatever you mean by that) make COBOL better? You afraid of the playground taunts of "our COBOL has 64-bits yours doesn't"? Enterprise COBOL is now, with the re-write, prepared for 64-bit addressing. That doesn't mean there's just a button to press, but means that when someone (clients) think it is a good idea, for good reasons, to have the option to do that for COBOL, then it is now possible to change the Enterprise COBOL to do that. Leaving that aside, why? V5+ took the maximum size of a single storage SECTION of a COBOL program from 128MB to 2GB. Even before that, you could (presuming you had access to it) reference every single byte of 31-bit-addressable storage in a single COBOL program. You want flames spray-painted on the side otherwise you feel you are somehow being let down? You think it is more "some phrase to make things seem cooler" to be "64-bit" even at the cost of program performance? You want something on like the spoiler on a non-racing car for Enterprise COBOL? Why? Ah. You don't use COBOL, do you? It's not you afraid of the playground chanters, it's you being one. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
