On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 8:05 PM, Edward Gould <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Sep 5, 2017, at 4:51 PM, Mike Schwab <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> The number of defects reported against COBOL V4 is almost zero! That > is one of > >> the reasons why we are considering dropping support for COBOL V4. > >> > > Sorry to persuade you otherwise. After much talk to/from management we are > delaying going to the next v6(?) in COBOL. > We/they don’t trust PDSE. It has broken once to often for this customer (I > agree) and they lost load modules up the ying yang. > They also got feedback from the programmers and how they hate the new > COBOL’s. > Management knows that sooner or later they have to go but between PDSE and > COBOL, they are delaying it as long as they can. > They understand that they are out of service but to quote one VP better to > be out of service than to loose load modules and that means downtime and > they can’t afford downtime. > The auditors know about this but as it turns out they hate PDSe’s as much > as upper management. The CIO is aware and not happy but he got burned with > PDSE and he agrees that it is worth the chance. I was surprised at their > resistance but when you here venom coming out of a VP’s mouth about PDSE’s > you would understand. > I tried to get the programmers resistance to have them write down their > issues, but I had a feeling they didn’t have to justify much as the VP was > really pissed. > When IBM makes enemies like this over one portion of the OS, they are > asking IMO to loose a customer. > We must live right. We use PDSE libraries for most "production" libraries (load & "sysin"). We have have _no_ problems. But I'd be willing to bet that is because we are a single system "sysplex" with little sharing. We used to be a two system basic (not parallel) sysplex, but did not have any problems then either. Likely because all updates to the PDSEs were done on a single member of the 'plex. > > Ed > > -- Caution! The OP is an hyperpolysyllabicsesquipedalianist and this email may cause stress to those with hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
