Well into the 1970s, there were legions of IT folks who did not trust VSAM. There was a droll little ditty of the 'If it...then it's...' type. The last line went, 'If it...but it doesn't work, then it's VSAM'.
So is there anyone left who so mistrusts VSAM that they cannot commit to a technology upgrade? I think that we've finally got past that hang-up. PDSE is ready for prime time. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Frank Swarbrick Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 9:53 AM To: [email protected] Subject: (External):Re: Lack of Support for Doc for COBOL With the use of the proper compile options I have not heard of any compatibility issues in our environment. Indeed the original COBOL V5 release did have some. But I believe that IBM has now made it possible, with the correct compiler options, to get the same results (albeit with generally better generated machine code) as with COBOL V4. There may, of course, still be some edge cases. ________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Charles Mills <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 6, 2017 10:43 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Lack of Support for Doc for COBOL I think when you are maintaining 30-year-old 50,000-line programs the phrase "slight incompatibility" sends shivers up your spine. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Frank Swarbrick Sent: Wednesday, September 6, 2017 9:20 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Lack of Support for Doc for COBOL 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
