Hi, david.
There is nothing stopping you from making an official request, through
WAVV perhaps, that IBM provide new PL/I and/or COBOL compilers for CMS.
As Alan as already noted, there is a new z/VM C/C++ compiler available
for that environment now; IBM has already done almost all of the heavy
lifting needed to port the current z/OS compilers over to CMS.....LE is
at the correct level, a cradle to surround the compiler itself is
available, CMS now supports the bind command, etc. I can't speak for
the COBOL compiler, but the PL/I and C compilers on z/OS share a great
deal of common code and infrastructure; what is left to be done is the
actual porting, testing, and documenting effort. And of course, support
would have to be considered as well.
Just a thought.
David L. Craig wrote:
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 02:39:45AM -0400, Alan Altmark wrote:
I'm not sure what you expect IBM to do.
We have never used ICCF, only CMS for Applications
Development and Production Control. I'm sure you
can understand why. Management has had us stuck
in the 20th Century and now seems to be ready to
accept the migration from the mainframe has taken
so much longer than expected they have to upgrade.
Only CMS compilers are gone. CMS VSAM is gone.
Please give us a Staement of Direction regarding
CMS itself--don't keep us in an office pool about
its EoS. Is that too much to ask?
If so, we need to plan to move those functions off
CMS as part of the upgrade. Management may very
well decide to continue limping along while they
beef up the migration effort. Frankly, I wouldn't
blame them, as VSE has never been really profitable
either, has it?
--
Dave Jones
V/Soft
www.vsoft-software.com
Houston, TX
281.578.7544
