Tim, I am looking for the QDM (quick and dirty method) to pull a shop into a more supported OS. There is no appetite for reworking code to accommodate the new COBOL. If we were actually able to run on something newer, there might be path for a small section of apps to go thru actual conversion.
Rob On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 7:14 AM Timothy Sipples <sipp...@sg.ibm.com> wrote: > A couple quick comments from me: > > 1. IBM eliminated Single Version Charge (SVC) time limits. If, for example, > you have an OS/VS COBOL application that's still lagging behind, you could > keep a CICS Transaction Server 2.3 AOR running it until you can get it > pulled forward, and surround that laggard AOR with CICS Transaction Server > 5.3 (or better yet 5.4) regions for everything else you run. CICS TS 2.3, > the last release that supported OS/VS COBOL applications, has reached End > of Service, of course. So has OS/VS COBOL for that matter. However, CICS > has long supported freely intermixing interoperating releases, unless > exceptionally documented otherwise. And there shouldn't be any financial > obstacle in doing that now. > > 2. It's nearly certain you're taking a longer path length through the OS/VS > COBOL execution versus an optimized Enterprise COBOL Version 6 alternative > reality. Try to make the trek if you can, as soon as you can. There's > considerable reward in that, especially if this OS/VS COBOL code is either > contributing to your monthly peak 4HRA utilization, or if it is elongating > your batch execution time when your batch execution time is your peak > demand driver. > > 3. If the problem is that you lost the source code, reasonable source > recovery might be possible. (There are some previous discussions about > that.) > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Timothy Sipples > IT Architect Executive, Industry Solutions, IBM Z and LinuxONE, AP/GCG/MEA > E-Mail: sipp...@sg.ibm.com > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Rob Schramm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
