Re: Today (Feb 26) IBM announcements

Clark,
This was NOT a set of announcement for programming languages (or most
programming tools). There weren't new releases of IMS, CICS, or DB2. Even
Language Environment was only included in the "preview" of z/OS 1.10.

I think that you (Clark) are well aware that there are some '02 Standard
features that IBM Enterprise COBOL programmers would like (table sort,
initialize enhancements, even EXIT enhancements) while there are others they do
NOT want (free form reference format that is available almost everywhere is NOT
popular with IBM mainframe COBOL programmers, certainly VALIDATE and enhanced
REPORT WRITE are questionable).

I am not at SHARE this week, but recent indications from IBM are that they are
getting more resources to meet existing SHARE (and other user) requirements for
COBOL. If this is true, I would expect significant enhancements to COBOL in the
next 18 months or so. However, who knows for sure.

P.S. The recent V4.0 announcement did meet a couple of SHARE requirements
including ZIIP support for COBOL/XML and a separate "compiler options" file.

--
Bill Klein
wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com
"Clark F Morris" <cfmpublic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:vlsbs35f58padvgl9kqc0borbgp2u5lgn1@xxxxxxxxxx
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

***

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.


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