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Workspace COBOL Compilers
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Created on Aug 19, 2016

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Increase COBOL Technical Resources for Publication Development

IBM should allocate significantly more/better COBOL technical resources for the preparation and review of their publications.

IBM dedicated many person hours (years) to the development of the software for Enterprise COBOL V5.1. However, it appears that minimal (certainly not comparable) resources were allocated to the development and review of the technical publications that accompanied this release.

Errors in the publication set vary from:
Humorous (such as referencing to the 16G line or telling people to send their RCF's to the wrong email address)
or
Anarchistic (such as references to a CICS Macro Migration tool that is no longer available or talking about year 2000 as in the future)
or
More serious misleading information (such as stating that CBLQDA(ON) is required when it isn't or referencing the wrong release and edition number for the Customization Guide within the Program Directory)

In general, COBOL users can open the COBOL publications almost at random and find an error (some serious, some not) within a few pages.

These types of errors (and the problems that they cause users) can only be avoided with SIGNIFICANT technical COBOL resources (more than has happened in the recent past) being allocated during the development and review of the COBOL publication set.

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Feb 10, 2020

    We acknowledge that complete and accurate documentation reviews are essential and therefore put more attention on documentation reviews and updates for our Enterprise COBOL V6.2 and V6.3 GA releases, and will continue to do so for future releases as well. We also address new comments received via Case reports or written in comments and comments and refresh documentation (both KC and downloadable PDFs) on a monthly basis.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 7, 2016

    Moving this RFE to 'uncommitted candidate' . It will be updated once put into plan.

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