Cobol

Liant (RM/Cobol) purchased by Micro-Focus
What's the poop here. Is RM/Cobol doomed to go away? ... 16 Jul 2008 21:18

Use of "conditional" vs "imperative" statements
As a sort-of follow-up to both the END-PERFORM and EVALUATE threads, I just thought that I would mention exactly HOW limited the use of "conditional" statements are in Standard-conforming (ANSI/ISO - any year) COBOL source code is: A conditional statement may be used: 1) at the end of a series of statements... 9 Jul 2008 13:42

How competent are we?
It is interesting to me to see the differences between the world of COBOL and the world outside that, and try to understand both. COBOL evolved in an era when there was no computer science (or only very vestigial traces of it), when everything was powered from a central processor that simply interacted through... 27 Jul 2008 21:44

EVALUATE
I know we've discussed EVALUATE here on a number of occasions, but I'm wondering if anyone can shed light on the following: evaluate MOST-SQLSTATE when '00000' *> OK move zero to MOST-file-status when '02000' *> EOF or record not found if MOST-GetRandom ... 15 Jul 2008 11:16

END-PERFORM scope terminator
Anybody know why the standard does not allow END-PERFORM on an out-of-line PERFORM? (It is, of course, mandated for inline) Roger ... 14 Jul 2008 11:37

contracting in New York city
From time to time here in CLC we have discussed aspects of freelancing and some of the pitfalls to watch out for. The whole contract programming scenario has undergone serious change during the last 30 years, at least, it has in Europe. I remember the heady days of cowboy agencies that were mostly unregulated,... 14 Jul 2008 10:35

Can program FTP be called from IBM mainframe Cobol?
I want to call to FTP program from a mainframe MVS Cobol. When I am doing this I am getting the following error: CEE3648S POSIX(ON) run-time option in a nested enclave TESTFTP is not supported. Any idea if it is possible? Thanks, Zalek ... 15 Jul 2008 12:18

OPENING FOR COBOL WITH C IN CHENNAI
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RM COBOL Question (by Pete Dashwood dashwood@removethis.enternet.co.nz)
"SeaSideSam" <Sam(a)SeaSide> wrote in message news:32f$486c296c$6214c817$30671(a)ALLTEL.NET... Refs: RM/COBOL V6.5 for UNIX and Win95 Users Guide RM/COBOL V6.5 for UNIX and Win95 Language Reference Manual Pete. 1) There is no mention of 'ISAM' files in the above refs. 2) Recognized fi... 3 Jul 2008 07:22

Fujitsu or Microfocus
One of my colleagues stated the other day "worldwide Fujitsu is more prevalent than MicroFocus" Is this true? I am only talking about 'nix and Windows systems. TIA -- Steve ... 14 Jul 2008 12:39