Re: RDP 8.5 Announced

Jeff,

As another small shop doing development in COBOL (near your neck of the
woods in central western Ohio), we can relate to your disappointment.
Here's a link to an RFE that would at least bring the AIX COBOL outline to
our package:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=10320

I don't know the internal workings, but it seems to me that it shouldn't
be too hard to bring the already developed functionality from the AIX
tools to the IBM i space.

Michael Quigley
Computer Services
The Way International
www.TheWay.org
419 753-1222


wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 06/05/2012 03:28:22 PM:

----- Message from Jeff Buening <Jeff.Buening@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
on Tue, 5 Jun 2012 14:11:04 -0400 -----

To:

Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client
for System i & iSeries <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Subject:

Re: [WDSCI-L] RDP 8.5 Announced

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.

Jeff Buening