IBM COBOL - How old is your COBOL code?

From: William M. Klein (wmklein_at_nospam.netcom.com)
Date: 11/02/04

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    The following (not "official" as far as I know) statement appears in the recent
    "Cheryl's List #94 - 29 October 2004"

    "For example, we have been warned that ... the ISAM access method ... will no
    longer be supported as of z/OS 1.7."

    Should this be true, then this MIGHT impact some OS/VS COBOL customers who have
    remained on OS/VS COBOL (rather than migrating to VS COBOL II or later *because*
    of ISAM support). Personally, I don't know of any sites that haven't converted
    to VSAM by now, but who knows what actually exists in some shop somewhere.
    (Obviously, if the OS doesn't support ISAM, then it won't matter if you use the
    LE or OS/VS COBOL run-time library - RES or NORES) 

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