Re: Fw: RDP 8.5 Announced

Hi Rick!

Welcome to the mailing list!

In reading your response, I saw mine and that it could be taken
negatively. Please don't read that into my comments. Eric Simpson (or
one of the other fine members of your team) replied shortly after my
message. He explained the difference in the internals of the languages. I
probably should have replied and thanked him for the explanation. Anyway,
I'm grateful for the work everyone does on the tools. It definitely makes
my life easier and more productive.

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

wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 06/19/2012 02:43:18 AM:

----- Message from Rick Sawyer <rlsawyer@xxxxxxxxxx> on Mon, 18 Jun
2012 15:00:36 -0400 -----

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Re: [WDSCI-L] Fw: RDP 8.5 Announced

Hi everyone,

I just subscribed to this list starting today and looking through the
recent archives I saw this comment that I thought I should respond

to.

I am a member of the RD Power development team, and I work on the AIX
COBOL tools.

When the AIX COBOL tools were being created at first, we were able to

take

advantage of the COBOL tooling that was created for System z.

Although

this took some effort, it was relatively easy since the COBOL

language is

almost exactly the same for AIX and System z (the compilers share

parsing

technology). On the other hand, IBM i COBOL is significantly

different

from AIX and System z COBOL. Now that we have a common COBOL tooling
component, with no system-dependencies, for AIX and System z, that

does

make it a little easier to bring this to IBM i as well. However,

that

said, with the significant language differences there is still a lot

of

work that would be needed to bring the full set of tooling to IBM i.

A first step towards this kind of support would be bringing the

outline

view up to the level of the AIX COBOL one. The best way to ensure

that

you see COBOL enhancements is to vote for those RFEs. We really try

to

please our customers, and we do listen, as we showed by delivering

some of

your most voted for RFEs in 8.5.

Rick Sawyer
Rational Developer for Power
IBM Software Group, Rational