Re: Today (Feb 26) IBM announcements

On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:24:10 GMT, "William M. Klein"
<wmklein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Probably all of you who MIGHT care already know about it, but there were several
significant announcements by IBM today. Therefore, I won't post links to all of
them, but some that might interest some in CLC are:
(I think these links will work, but they may be "individualized" for me. Let
me know and I can look for other links if these don't work generally.)

HARDWARE:
IBM System z10 Enterprise Class -- The forward-thinking mainframe for the
twenty-first century
http://www.ibm.com/vrm/newsletter_10577_2548_62970_email_DYN_1IN/WKlein12584487

OPERATING SYSTEM (preview)
Preview: z/OS V1.10 -- Raising the bar and redefining scalability,
performance, availability, and economics
http://www.ibm.com/vrm/newsletter_10577_2548_63032_email_DYN_1IN/WKlein12584487

ISPF (yes, it is "well and getting enhancements")
IBM ISPF Productivity Tool V5.10 enhancements deliver increased efficiency for
ISPF users
http://www.ibm.com/vrm/newsletter_10577_2548_63020_email_DYN_1IN/WKlein12584487

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For a summary of today's announcements, go to:
http://www.ibm.com/vrm/newsletter_10577_2548_62925_email_DYN_1IN/WKlein12584487

What is striking is what announcements were not there. There was NO
announcement of COBOL supporting floating decimal. There was NO
announcement of COBOL being able to interoperate with 64 bit JAVA.
There was NO announcement of any support for the features of the 2002
standard. There was only an announcement of COBOL XML support. From
what I can see COBOL for IBM is a cash cow that is going to go away.
.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: COBOL...to be, or not to be...
    ... ignoring that IBM has no .NET support and ignoring that IBM (on Windows ... and z/OS) has an ENTIRELY non-Standard approach to OO COBOL ... I want to be able to use the DotNet framework and classes ...
    (comp.lang.cobol)
  • Re: COBOL...to be, or not to be...
    ... Ignoring that IBM announced this week their replacement for WDz and ignoring ... that migration from either Fujitsu or Micro Focus COBOL to IBM ... Also, when you call for support on IBM COBOL, you don't get a 1st level flunky ... I want to be able to use the DotNet framework and classes in my ...
    (comp.lang.cobol)
  • Re: Today (Feb 26) IBM announcements
    ... significant announcements by IBM today. ... For a summary of today's announcements, ... announcement of COBOL being able to interoperate with 64 bit JAVA. ... Some people think that Java and COBOL are in the same boat... ...
    (comp.lang.cobol)
  • Re: Recursion in Standard (was: string to correct integer
    ... I think that Fujitsu does support this in non-OO programs, ... The other issue, of course, is that more and more IBM mainframe COBOL ...
    (comp.lang.cobol)
  • Re: Differences in data description in programming languages
    ... The following is the correct (and used by shops maintaining their IBM COBOL ... to IBM mainframe shops is to shops PORTING away from the mainframe, ... also support the '74 Standard ) ...
    (comp.lang.cobol)