I have no statistical evidence, but my impression is that V5/V6 is not yet in widespread use. The biggest obstacle for *some* shops is the requirement that output go to PDSE, which cannot reliably be shared across sysplex boundaries. If you don't do that, no problem. If you do, then some (perhaps major) changes will be required to create and manage multiple application load libraries.
It's now possible to install V5/V6 on a trial basis without starting the dreaded Version Clock. Check with your favorite Beemer. OTOH the Version Clock has been extended to 18 months from the standard 12. That should help. Also note that installing V5/V6 does not mean converting all programs from V4-. It just means that all new compiles must be V5/V6. In other words, you can no longer invoke the V4- compiler. You are not required by Ts&Cs to recompile everything. Or anything AFAIK. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-302-7535 Office robin...@sce.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2016 8:15 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Re: Cobol V5/V6 On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 06:28:35 -0700, Lizette Koehler wrote: >We are not planning to upgrade to Cobol V5/6 until after z/OS V2.2 is >installed because that is the only level where IEFOPZxx is available. > >Once that is available we will use the concatenation function in this >parm to use a PDSE dataset prior to a PDS dataset in our Production batch. > >z/OS 2.2 was announced Aug 2016. It requires a Z10 or newer processor. >Here is the announcement letter. > http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=ca&infotype=an&appname =iSource&supplier=897&letternum=ENUS215-267#availx (Repaired UL, I hope) > Wherein I read: Planned availability date September 30, 2015 An accelerated delivery schedule, indeed. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
