"older" IBM COBOL and DB2

From: William M. Klein (wmklein_at_nospam.netcom.com)
Date: 12/12/03 

Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 18:33:32 GMT

I know there have been previous discussions about when (what future release) of
CICS will *drop* support for even running OS/VS COBOL programs, but I don't know
if anyone else (besides me) *missed* the fact that DB V8 does *not* support
either

    OS/VS COBOL
        or
     VS COBOL II

According to:

    http://www.ibm.com/isource/cgi-bin/goto?it=usa_annred&on=203-019

The *only* COBOL compilers supported with this release of DB2 are:

COBOL: Any of the following:
    ENTERPRISE COBOL V3.2 (5655-G53)
    IBM COBOL for OS/390 and VM V2.2 (5648-A25), optionally, with VisualAgeŽ
COBOL Enterprise V2.2 (04L6579)

Similarly for PL/I

PL/I: Any of the following:
    IBM Enterprise PL/I for z/OS and OS/390 V3 (5655-H31)
    VisualAge PL/I for OS/390 V2.2 (5655-B22)

        ***

Everyone else may have noticed this last January when this announcement was
made, but it was just brought to my attention recently - and I thought I would
"highlight" it for sites that are still on "down-level" (no longer supported by
IBM) compilers. 

-- 
Bill Klein
 wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com

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