(IBM) LE for z/OS V1R7

Just in case anyone (who cares) in this newsgroup missed it, IBM did come out
with their "availability" announcement (Sept 30) for LE for z/OS V1R7. See:

http://www.ibm.com/isource/cgi-bin/goto?it=usa_annred&on=205-167

Of POSSIBLE (I hope not) interest to some in the COBOL world is the (long
announced) total removal of "ISAM" support. For those NOT familiar with IBM
terminology, this does not mean removal of support for COBOL
"organization is indexed"
files, but for an older access method that was used for this. Current support
is available via VSAM KSDS.

What I haven't been able to figure out (yet) is what happens to OS/VS COBOL
programs that used "true" ISAM if

A) compiled with NORES and link-edited with earlier run-times and run in an LE
1.7 environment
B) compiled with RES and run under LE 1.7

I assume they will "die" - but I don't know whether this will be a
"user-friendly" OS/VS COBOL specific ABEND or some type of "generic" z/OS ABEND.
I assume we will hear "sooner than later". Hopefully,

http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/igy3mg30/4.1.4.1.1

which says

"Manual conversion actions: If the design of your application makes it
impossible to convert to VSAM, you can restructure the application to separate
the ISAM statements into an I/O program that can be compiled by the OS/VS COBOL
compiler. You can then separate the rest of the application logic into programs
that can be upgraded to Enterprise COBOL.

You can then run your application consisting of both OS/VS COBOL programs and
Enterprise COBOL programs under Language Environment."

will be updated in a "timely" manner (after - or even better before - Sep 30,
2005).


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