"Rudderow, Evan" <[log in to unmask]> writes:
 
>Tony Furnivall <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>  1. MF COBOL does not produce code which can be placed in an XL. This
 
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>>  2. MF COBOL does not 'know about' or 'understand' KSAM data structures.
 
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>I hope you're kidding, Tony.
 
 
No - I only wish I were. The document in question was part of the handouts
at SIGCOBOL. In all fairness the paper and slides are clearly marked "For
discussion only", so I *hope* this means that nothing yet is cast in concrete.
However, the statement is clearly made that "The Micro Focus File Handler
utilities..do not understand the internals of KSAM files". Only optionss
offered are ways to move *away* from KSAM (i.e. our investment), and towards
something which the new kid wants to play with.
Likewise with respect to XLs, the paper states (somewhat tersely), "At this
time
the Micro Focus COBOL MPE/iX product does not support XL's".
 
Doesn't sound to me like this is anything I'd be kidding about!
 
What do y'all think out there - let's get some discussion going. Otherwise
we might lose a lot of good things when HP *does* respond and start porting
3rd party C++ etc.
Tony