According to the marketing literature, it does binary. Both Raincode and IT-COBOL are partners. If a binary doesn't work, you go to a COBOL-IT recompile.
They have a demo-film for batch, with this stern and impressive prologue: "The recording has not been edited or shortened. Everything you will see happened in real time". What is the length of the bit which would potentially "benefit" from editing if they were being dodgy? Four seconds. Yep, they've not edited-down four seconds to make it look faster than four seconds actually is. During those four seconds the I7 CPU hits 25% utilisation. Mmm... must be a hard-hitting JOB? Memory use prior to running anything is 32% of 16GB, and stays solidly at 32% throughout. Can't be that tough a task. They run a "NIST JOB", saying that it is "a bit special". For he JOB "which contains the references to the modules that have been created by the National Institutes of Standards and Technology. They have created a program-set which verifies the integrity and functionality of the COBOL language in the environment" they "took these programs that have been compiled on the mainframe, binary intact, and its data, and ported it onto the software-defined mainframe". The JOB is stated to have 260 steps. OK, so NIST certainly have done that. They have over 500 programs in the test suite. They contain up to 70 CALL statements, so 260 plus 70 (being conservative) means that they could be covering 330 out of more than 500 programs in the NIST test suite. The NIST programs do nothing beyond verifying the correct processing of PROCEDURE DIVISION constructs. I'm not aware of anything very heavy in them, but I'm not claiming to know the 500+ programs in detail, there may be a couple with PERFORM or SEARCH, I'll try to check later. So "ported". What does that involve? What about "the COBOL run-time" (LE), which I assume is licensed. What about things like SORT and MERGE, which on the Mainframe use the installed SORT package? "Running standardized mainframe application (NIST job) with unchanged mainframe load modules and JCL" and "by the way, 260 steps is more than the conventional mainframe can run in one job", so they can have-their-cake-and-eat-it within a very short period of time in the same film-clip. The legacy, legacy, legacy everywhere on their site is pure indoctrination, sorry, psychologically-inspired advertising, easily impressed on the brain-pans of those with no genuine knowledge of Mainframes who are already "modified" to believe that a Mainframe is a dusty-old-thing running systems written in the 1960s. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
