I don't know if the below would be better or worse for the shops that are concerned about converting PDSs with load modules to PDSEs with program objects, but would it not be true to say that one could, if one wished, leave all pre-COBOL5 executables in their current PDS and compile only COBOL 5 executables into a new PDSE? Of course one would need to concatenate the two in any JOBLIB/STEPLIB, but I would hope (?!?!) that these definitions would be brought in via JCL INCLUDE statements or something similar. Perhaps the latter is naive...
Frank >________________________________ > From: Tom Ross <tmr...@stlvm20.vnet.ibm.com> >To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >Sent: Monday, September 9, 2013 9:18 AM >Subject: Re: z/OS 2.1 and tools like COBOL 5.1, Fault Analyzer, Debug Tool, etc > > >>In <vnetibm.20130907162208.9...@bldgate.vnet.ibm.com>, on 09/07/2013 >> at 09:22 AM, Tom Ross <tmr...@stlvm20.vnet.ibm.com> said: >> >>>No, the COBOL Migration Guide is correct, all COBOL programs=20 >>>produce GOFF output with COBOL V5, so after Binding you will have=20 >>>a program object and it must reside in a PDSE. >> >>It's not the use of GOFF per se that requires program objects, it's >>the use of GOFF features that aren't supported in load modules. > >Sorry about that, you are correct. Though GOFF is new for COBOL V5.1, >it is not the reason why the executables must be program objects and >must be in PDSEs. I must admit I was more focused on getting people >ready for COBOL V5.1, and there are really 2 things that shops can >do to prepare for COBOL V5.1 without getting the product, and I have >been SHAREing this information for years now: > >1) Convert load libraries to PDSE if not already there > >2) Expand the max region size for users who will be doing compiles > with COBOL V5.1 (they will need 200M). Shops with PL/I or > Fault Analyzer may have done this already, but other shops may > not allow enough region size to do compiles with COBOL V5.1 > >Cheers, >TomR >> COBOL is the Language of the Future! << > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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
