I recall that one time when we reported an error to IBM where an ASSEMBLER module was involved, we got the simple and short answer
"Customer should not use ASSEMBLER" I don't recall what the problem was, maybe something involving DB2 and the DB2 precompiler for ASSEMBLER ... Am 11.04.2013 21:46, schrieb John Ehrman:
So "internal politics" is correct -- some IBM execs apparently believed that PL/I would satisfy all future programming needs, and that Assembler applications would disappear shortly.
