Very, considering there are literally hundreds if not thousands of shops still using COBOL..
Scott On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 9:55 AM Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > Sad. > > Charles > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Steve Thompson > Sent: Friday, September 1, 2017 5:22 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Lack of Support for Doc for COBOL > > COBOL 4.2 is still supported, and orderable. There are no posted EOM or EOS > dates. > > So here is a response to a document error that was acknowledged as being > valid: > > ------ > > Thanks for your comment. You are correct: abbreviation for TEST|NOTEST > should be none, and SEP|NOSEP should be the abbreviations for the TEST > suboptions SEPARATE|NOSEPARATE. > > However, we do not update the COBOL V4.2 documentation any longer. We now > support continuous documentation delivery for COBOL V6.1 and V5.2 only. > > Sorry for the inconveniences caused. Let us know if you have further > questions. > > Thanks, > Dana Zhang 张丹 > > COBOL Information Developer, PMP > DevOps Systems ID, China Development Lab, IBM > > ------ > > The manual has not been updated since “Second Edition (August 2009)”. So > one wonders how many errors in the doc have been reported that were not > applied to this manual. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Scott Ford IDMWORKS z/OS Development ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
