Hi Sharon, We are an ISV and I am in the early stages of playing with this. From what I can tell, the PDSE is a requirement. Maybe someone else will comment. I have compiled a couple of DB2 V10 programs that use CAF and that were previous compiled on 4.2 using the DB2 V10 Preprocessor as well and that part worked fine once I worked out the compiler PARM syntax for DB2. You no longer need to run the DB2 Preprocessor, at least for the code that I am using, as there is a built in DB2 feature using the SQL parameter and some SQL subparameters. I can provide a sample if you like. The intent is to see if this runs on any other z/OS version, I have 1.8, 1.11, 1.12 1nd 1.13 available. I suspect maybe not but I haven't had time to get to the testing yet because of other commitments. The loss of support for 24-bit may also be an issue for some.
When I get further on with this I will let you know. Yours truly, John T. Abell President International Software Products Tel: 800-295-7608 Ext: 224 International: 1-416-593-5578 Ext: 224 Fax: 800-295-7609 International: 1-416-593-5579 E-mail: john.ab...@intnlsoftwareproducts.com Web: www.ispinfo.com This email may contain confidential and privileged material for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any review, use, retention, distribution or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive on behalf of the named recipient), please contact the sender by reply email and delete all copies of this message. Also,email is susceptible to data corruption, interception, tampering, unauthorized amendment and viruses. We only send and receive emails on the basis that we are not liable for any such corruption, interception, tampering, amendment or viruses or any consequence thereof. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Lopez, Sharon Sent: Monday, March 17, 2014 2:12 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Enterprise Cobol 5.1 Has anyone migrated to Enterprise Cobol 5.1 from earlier enterprise releases? I guess that I was really surprised that it will not run on z/OS 1.12 and that the executables can only reside in a PDSE. Am I understanding this correctly? Sharon Lopez z/OS Systems Programmer N.C. Office of Information Technology Services 919.754.6432 Office 919.398.8638 Cell 919.754.6000 ITS Service Desk sharon.lo...@nc.gov<mailto:sharon.lo...@nc.gov> http://www.its.state.nc.us<http://www.its.state.nc.us/> ________________________________ E-mail correspondence to and from this address may be subject to the North Carolina Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties by an authorized state official. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN