On 1 Dec 2010 07:03:57 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >To begin with a kudos, Ted MacNeil wrote: > ><begin snippet> >Especially with the requirements for backwards compatability (sic) it will not >spring forward as Athena from the forehead of Zeus. ></end snippet> > >and I want to acknowledge that he got this classical allusion right. His >spelling of of the word 'compatibility' and his use of the word 'forehead' >instead of 'brow', the traditional translation, do a little take the edge off >his achievement; but he is clearly making progress. > >There is no real difficulty about 1) writing AMODE(64) code or 2) about >putting this code above the bar. The very real difficulty is that it cannot >yet be executed there 'in general' under z/OS, as Chris Craddock has already >made clear. > >The current chief use of AMODE(64) is thus to access data above the bar from >code located below it, but the importance of this use must not be >underestimated: DB2 now makes crucial use of space above the bar for its >tables, and there are applications that could and should do so too. > >The baleful ignorance of AMODE(64) implicit in many of the posts to this >thread suggests that this will not happen soon; and this was entirely >predictable: reactionary, pathologically risk-averse institutional behavior is >characteristic--I had almost written the defining characteristic--of many >mainframe shops.
Please convince the COBOL compiler developers of this need. Clark Morris > >John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO >Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
