Re: RDP 8.5 Announced

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff

I believe you should never be using the AIX COBOL perspective to develop 
for the IBM i - different animals - COBOL for IBM i is done through the 
Remote Systems LPEX editor, as usual.

I think! Being an RPGer at heart!

Vern

On 6/5/2012 2:01 PM, Jeff Buening wrote:
> Yes that makes sense.  Will just have to get use to a COBOL enhancement
> from IBM that might not affect the operating system we are running.
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>    |06/05/2012 02:24 PM                                                                                                                         |
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> AIX is the version of Unix that runs on IBM POWER hardware.  AIX COBOL is
> the
> COBOL compiler for that operating system.  It doesn't run on the IBM i
> operating
> system.  If you're 'pushed' to AIX for some reason you may be 'pushed' to
> the
> AIX COBOL compiler, but you won't be 'pushed' to it while you're running
> IBM i.
> Clear?
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> Dave Shaw
> Mohawk Industries
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Jeff Buening<Jeff.Buening@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for
> System i&  iSeries<wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tue, June 5, 2012 2:11:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] RDP 8.5 Announced
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> So I am confused, as a small company not planning on going away from COBOL
> anytime soon, are we going to get pushed to this AIX COBOL at some point?
> Did IBM need to create an AIX COBOL for marketing purposes?  Why did AIX
> COBOL have to be created to get COBOL enhancements or COBOL RDP
> enhancements?  As a younger programmer just trying to understand IBM's
> direction with COBOL.
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