Re: Today (Feb 26) IBM announcements
- From: Clark F Morris <cfmpublic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:22:25 -0400
On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 06:10:28 GMT, "William M. Klein"
<wmklein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.
The announcement for decimal floating point specifically noted the
support for it in C/C++ and PL/1. Most of the other new facilities
seem to be underneath the covers type support.
.
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