Shane's surmise that the PDSE requirement for COBOL 5.1 executables will slow its adoption in many shops is certainly correct. All such requirements do so.
Where Shane and I differ, and I suspect that this difference is visceral, is that I am radically impatient with the "conservatism" of these shops, which is making them irrelevant, and he is [legitimately] preoccupied with their current, detailed, operational problems. I do not, of course, deny that there are such problems. They are always with us. Nirvana will not obtain when the current batch have been resolved. They will be succeeded by others of much the same sort. The existence of a set of these problems, whatever its current makeup may be, is not, however, an argument for stasis. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
