The COBOL manuals can be found here: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27036733
As far as updates to the z/OS library, zVSE and zVM have had new releases more recently than z/OS. That may explain why there are no z/OS updates. Lizette is correct that z/OS 2.1 is PDF-only so say goodbye to Softcopy Reader. Bob Shannon Rocket Software ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN