On 17 Feb 2013 11:03:08 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >Thomas, > >I see your point ...writing in Cobol , because I must to support a product, I >have used a bunch of assembler routines, we are converting to C You definitely should read the latest COBOL manuals thoroughly to see which Assembler routines can be replaced with native COBOL. And if IBM had just implemented the portions of the 2002 Standard for which there are SHARE requirements, even more of those routines could be eliminated. The latter includes such things as USAGE BIT and related Boolean instructions, other true BINARY usages and other long overdue facilities that I don't recall.
CLark Morris > >Scott ford >www.identityforge.com > >Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll >understand. - Chinese Proverb > > >On Feb 17, 2013, at 1:47 PM, Thomas Berg <thomas.b...@swedbank.se> wrote: > >> Some suggestions: >> >> * GO TO's from in the middle of one SECTION into the middle of another. And >> then GO TO back again depending on a "switch"... >> * Programs with nested PERFORMS (*only* PERFORMS!) in maybe 7 levels ending >> in a CALL of another module. >> * Field name (variable) in (e g) MOVE statement qualified resulting in more >> than 100 characters, then add the matching length for the corresponding >> field. >> (Take this times 1000 fields...) >> * Processing the same data sometimes in a character defined field, sometimes >> in numeric defined fields (several different numeric formats for the same >> data) without any reasonable explanation. >> * Need to check four or five different result fields (depending on the >> situation etc.) for eventual error from the CALL of another module. >> >> And other I have forgotten... >> >> >> >> Regards >> Thomas Berg >> ________________________________________________________________ >> Thomas Berg Specialist z/OS/IT Delivery SWEDBANK AB (Publ) >> >>> -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- >>> Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] >>> För Scott Ford >>> Skickat: den 16 februari 2013 21:26 >>> Till: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >>> Ämne: Re: SV: Article for the boss: COBOL will outlive us all >>> >>> Thomas, >>> >>> I don't follow, writing in several languages , what awkward to do in >>> cobol, supervisory stuff yes for sure. >>> >>> Scott ford >>> www.identityforge.com >>> >>> Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and >>> I'll understand. - Chinese Proverb >>> >>> >>> On Feb 16, 2013, at 2:53 PM, Thomas Berg <thomas.b...@swedbank.se> >>> wrote: >>> >>>>> -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- >>>>> Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM- >>> m...@listserv.ua.edu] >>>>> För John Gilmore >>>>> Skickat: den 16 februari 2013 20:25 >>>>> Till: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >>>>> Ämne: Re: Article for the boss: COBOL will outlive us all >>>>> >>>>> Tony H wrote >>>>> >>>>> | Now back to our regular COBOL, uh, programming. >>>>> >>>>> thus alluding to how many of us view of the language. >>>>> >>>>> Over a now long career I never took COBOL seriously. I was aware of >>>>> it, and I even learned to write it by helping COBOL programmers with >>>>> their problems. It is a verbose but finally very simple language. >>>>> That said, I could not, and did not, think much of a language >>> without >>>>> real storage management, strings, pointers, booleans, etc., etc. It >>>>> was move-oriented, compile-time bound, and synchronous, and I find >>>>> these characteristics despicable. >>>> >>>> COBOL is certainly not a programmers language. It's very restricted >>> by its syntax and functionality and is often very clumsy to use. >>>> But that is also a feature: it's hard to obfuscate - which can be >>> seen as an asset from the point of maintenance and security. >>>> (Which do not mean that you can't make unintelligible programs - I >>> have seen many - but not at the lowest level.) >>>> It's also helpful when you need to understand the underlying data >>> structure the program is based on. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> Thomas Berg >>>> ________________________________________________________________ >>>> Thomas Berg Specialist z/OS/IT Delivery SWEDBANK AB (Publ) >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> - >>>> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send >>>> email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send >>> email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
