Frank Swarbrick wrote: >The requirement for z/OS 2.1 is disappointing. As I understand it, the z/OS 2.1 minimum applies only to the compiler itself. In other words, you'll need an LPAR (or z/VM guest) with z/OS 2.1 or higher to run Enterprise COBOL Version 6.1, but that's the extent of that requirement (with the caveat or two as noted in the announcement). However....
>One of our sysprogs just read this and he is starting then >plans for z/OS 2.2. That works, too! >I don't think we'll ever do JSON on the mainframe anyway. That sounds an awful lot like what an "old" person in the 1990s might have said about TCP/IP. :-) I see Bill Woodger agrees with me. Jim Mulder wrote: >Support for z/OS 1.13 ends soon (Sept. 30, 2016). Good point. Compiler releases tend to be (or should be) at the vanguard of the operating system release lifecycle across the entire IT industry, so it makes sense. John McKown wrote: >What "bothers" me is the lack of JSON PARSE to go with the JSON GENERATE. That announcement letter didn't mention it (maybe it should have), but one year ago IBM shipped standard, high performance, high function, fully supported JSON parsing services in z/OS for all languages/runtimes, including for COBOL. Take a look at the z/OS Client Web Enablement Toolkit specifically. Steve Warren's SHARE session in 2015, Session #17791, and the IBM Knowledge Center for z/OS 2.2 are excellent sources of information. Have you taken a look at that toolkit yet? It looks like at least some of you missed it. [Maybe I'm falling down on the job. :-)] Yes, the z/OS Client Web Enablement Toolkit exploits zIIPs quite nicely. The z/OS Client Web Enablement Toolkit ships with z/OS Version 2.2 and can be added to z/OS 2.1 via the service stream. This parser is the JSON analog to the z/OS XML System Services. The z/OS Client Web Enablement Toolkit also includes HTTP/HTTPS support, but whether you use that HTTP/HTTPS support or not this toolkit is where you find z/OS's JSON parsing services. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Sipples IT Architect Executive, Industry Solutions, IBM z Systems, AP/GCG/MEA E-Mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
