The reason why some shops (mine, in particular) are still using OS/VS COBOL and VS COBOL II is that decisions were made according to expediency and the fact that the mainframe was to be obsolete by the year 2000. Ergo, no need to convert.
On January 1, 2009, we, the mainframers, will be celebrating our 10th year of obsolescence with many more in sight. If it weren't for CICS & DB2, the conversion to Enterprise COBOL would have been delayed until LE would not support the old COBOL run time environments. Furthermore, the conversion to Enterprise COBOL has been pared back to only those programs using CICS and/or DB2. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
