Re: ABO Automatic Binary Optimizer/COBOL V5/V6 Migration

2016-10-17 Thread Tom Ross
used by invalid data in the COBOL data items at runtime. To fix this, users have to change the data, or the data entry panels, or use new compiler options to tolerate the bad data. There is no way to do source conversion to migrate to COBOL V5/V6, like there was years ago for OS/VS COBOL to anything

Re: Cobol V5/V6

2016-08-31 Thread Gord Tomlin
On 2016-08-31 02:53, Timothy Sipples wrote: Sharon Lopez wrote: >My concern is that IBM will announce EOS for Enterprise Cobol 4.2 >and we will not be ready. That's a healthy concern... Please put your reply on the Cobol V5/V6 thread, not the RD/z thread. Thank you. -- Regards

Re: Cobol V5/V6

2016-08-31 Thread Timothy Sipples
Sharon Lopez wrote: >My concern is that IBM will announce EOS for Enterprise Cobol 4.2 >and we will not be ready. That's a healthy concern, in my view. Try to move to the current Enterprise COBOL release as soon as you reasonably can. Leaving aside support periods, there are some terrific

Re: Cobol V5/V6

2016-08-30 Thread Mike Schwab
l out. > > I hope this helps > > Lizette > > > > >> -----Original Message- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On >> Behalf Of Lopez, Sharon >> Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2016 7:12 AM >> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSER

Re: Cobol V5/V6

2016-08-30 Thread Lizette Koehler
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Lopez, Sharon > Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2016 7:12 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Cobol V5/V6 > > My concern is that IBM will announce EOS for Ent

Re: Cobol V5/V6

2016-08-30 Thread Feller, Paul
Mainframe Technical Support -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jesse 1 Robinson Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2016 11:23 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Cobol V5/V6 I have no statistical evidence, but my impression is

Re: Cobol V5/V6

2016-08-30 Thread Jesse 1 Robinson
: Tuesday, August 30, 2016 8:15 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Re: Cobol V5/V6 On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 06:28:35 -0700, Lizette Koehler wrote: >We are not planning to upgrade to Cobol V5/6 until after z/OS V2.2 is >installed because that is the only level where IEFOPZxx is ava

Re: Cobol V5/V6

2016-08-30 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 06:28:35 -0700, Lizette Koehler wrote: >We are not planning to upgrade to Cobol V5/6 until after z/OS V2.2 is installed >because that is the only level where IEFOPZxx is available. > >Once that is available we will use the concatenation function in this parm to >use a PDSE

Re: Cobol V5/V6

2016-08-30 Thread Lopez, Sharon
Subject: Re: Cobol V5/V6 Sorry, the announcement is for 2015 not 2016. Lizette > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler > Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2016 6:29 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.ED

Re: Cobol V5/V6

2016-08-30 Thread Lizette Koehler
Sorry, the announcement is for 2015 not 2016. Lizette > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Lizette Koehler > Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2016 6:29 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: C

Re: Cobol V5/V6

2016-08-30 Thread Lizette Koehler
nframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Lopez, Sharon > Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2016 6:20 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Cobol V5/V6 > > Have a lot of shops migrated to COBOL V5/V6? Does anyone have a project plan > they

Cobol V5/V6

2016-08-30 Thread Lopez, Sharon
Have a lot of shops migrated to COBOL V5/V6? Does anyone have a project plan they would like to share with me? Is the IEFOPZxx member only available in z/OS 2.2? Thanks to everyone in advance. Email correspondence to and from this address may be subject

New Enterprise COBOL V5/V6 Migration Assistant, and Binary Optimizer Trial

2016-08-01 Thread Timothy Sipples
IBM just introduced a new, Web-based, interactive COBOL Migration Assistant that augments the Enterprise COBOL V5 and V6 Migration Guides. The online Enterprise COBOL V5/V6 Migration Assistant is available here: https://cobol-migration-assistant.mybluemix.net And/or, as a reminder, if you'd like