On Thu, 22 Jan 2015 23:04:41 -0800, Duffy Nightingale, SS wrote: >This guy Peter certainly makes a convincing argument for 64 bit data storage >addressing. Good info from the field and pretty hard for anyone in IBM to >know about. Maybe Peter's points will be taken into consideration. Seems >like >it would behoove IBM to spend some to keep their mainframe customers happy. >If they don't, I would love to write some C++ Service routines for 64 bit data >storage manipulation by good ol' COBOL....
Your C++ service routines will use XPLINK-64 for program linkage. IIRC, that means that they must run in a different enclave. Because of the requirement to switch to XPLINK, the cost of calling your service routines will be rather high. >C++ and COBOL don't place nice together for passing data but that can be >easily >overcome. And XPLINK programs don't play nicely with non-XPLINK. Nor do XPLINK programs play nicely with XPLINK-64. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
