On 12 Jan 2010 16:21:08 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >>Rick of course you are quite correct. The newer portions of Z/os like OE and >>TCP/IP/COBOL are horrendously documented. > >How long ago did you last check, Ed, when you were working on IBM Mainframes 5 >years ago? :-) > >>Yes I know the COBOL finally put out a M&C but IBM's denial for so long that >>it needs one is totally >>unnatural (at least to me). > >You are confused again...we have always had messages and codes for COBOL >run-time messages, since LE came >out in 1991. Maybe you could not find them, they are (and were) in the LE >Run-time messages manual. > >>IIRC it took the combined effort of GUIDE/SHARE to pester IBM into better >>doc. Maybe its time to renew the request? > >Speaking for COBOL, we have gotten quite a bit of positive feedback, including >at least 2 different users >who said that the COBOL Migration Guide was the best IBM manual they had ever >seen! > >Cheers, >TomR >> COBOL is the Language of the Future! << > If it is the language of the future when will IBM support the data types in the 2002 standard, recognize IEEE BINARY floating point so that COBOL can talk nicely to Java and C++ without a conversion routine, recognize decimal floating point that Mike Cowlishaw worked so hard on and based on compile option, 64 address areas to live nicely with 64 bit C++ and Java (probably using XPLINK)?
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