I understand the PDSE fear, though we've not run in to any issues. I don't understand what programmers don't like about COBOL V5/V6. Do you have any concrete examples? Just wondering. I like the new compiler releases. The NUMCHECK option, when used in development, looks to be very interesting and useful.
Frank ________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Edward Gould <edgould1...@comcast.net> Sent: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 7:05 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Lack of Support for Doc for COBOL > On Sep 5, 2017, at 4:51 PM, Mike Schwab <mike.a.sch...@gmail.com> 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. Ed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
