Re: Patents, Copyrights, Profits, Flex and Hercules

Timothy Sipples wrote: Ray Mullins writes: Random thought - I wonder what would happen if Fujitsu and Hitachi decided to release their clones of MVS and VSE to hobbyists. Yeah, yeah, there's legal agreements, etc., which probably preclude that. It's an interesting hypothetical to ponder for

Re: EXEC PARM bug or feature?

The whole slash business in COBOL goes back to the OS/VS COBOL days, before LE was even a blip on the PL/I radar (yes, that's where the LE stuff originated, and why COBOL had to adapt to LE). I remember setting COBOL runtime options after the slash back in the early 1980's. PL/I X (and

Re: Running COBOL under z/os.e

H... on 2005.11.23 12:40 McKown, John said the following: Also in: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/e0z2b161/1.11 quote Application programming: z/OS.e does not run the following types of applications: CICS, IMS, COBOL (with an exception), Fortran, and PL/I