Yay for the VSAMOPENFS(SUCC). I submitted the RFE for this. (Probably others did as well.)
I am curious what opinions other might have for this being a compile option rather than a runtime option. I spoke with COBOL development and they were insistent that having it as a compile option was the only way to go so-as to not change existing runtime behavior and perhaps cause issues. My argument was that if a shop currently always treated 97 and 00 in the same manner, and now 97 was never returned, the programs would still behave the same. No need for recompile (and perhaps could work even for downlevel compiled programs, as long as they used the most recent runtime). Oh well, water under the bridge I suppose. I'm fairly happy they at least addressed it. IMO status 97 should have never existed in the first place. The INITIALIZE enhancements are pretty nice as well. As are ALLOCATE/FREE. I was kind of hoping for more language enhancements, but progress is progress. The requirement for z/OS 2.1 is disappointing. We haven't been on 1.13 for all that long, and I don't know that we have an upgrade due any time soon... :-( Frank > Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 08:47:13 -0600 > From: [email protected] > Subject: Enterprise COBOL 6.1 announced > To: [email protected] > > Announcement > http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=ca&infotype=an&appname=iSource&supplier=897&letternum=ENUS216-059 > > trial version > http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=ca&infotype=an&appname=iSource&supplier=897&letternum=ENUS216-060 > > One Time Charge version? > http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=ca&infotype=an&appname=iSource&supplier=897&letternum=ENUS216-061 > > === > > New ALLOCATE, FREE, and JSON GENERATE verbs. Allows ALLOCATE and FREE of > dynamic memory (GETMAIN / FREEMAIN) and to generate JSON output, similar to > XML GENERATE is my guess. New option to automatically convert FILESTATUS=97 > to FILESTATUS=0. Way past time for that! > > Requires z/OS 2.1 or above. > > === > > -- > The man has the intellect of a lobotomized turtle. > > Maranatha! <>< > John McKown > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
