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Status Delivered
Workspace COBOL Compilers
Categories z/OS
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 29, 2022

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Example of how to build COBOL V6R4 “non OO COBOL to Java interoperability” applications in JCL

We want to establish a Proof Of Concept between COBOL V6.4 and Java. The IBM documentation says this is only possible under USS with the CJBuild Tool. But SCLM is the tool we use to compile our COBOL programs – but it doesn’t work in Unix System Services. Programs that can be created via work-arounds, but cannot bring to PROD for the foreseeable future, are not much use to us. Therefore we need a TSO JCL for the compile & link. We could adapt these into our SCLM language after the POC. Could IBM develop something here? Otherwise COBOL – Java interoperability is a feature we can’t use. We assume that many other companies have their Cobol compile processes only on TSO and not in USS.
Idea priority Medium
  • Admin
    Basil Kanneth
    Reply
    |     Mar 6, 2023

    This Idea has been delivered in the Feb 2023 Enterprise COBOL 6.4 PTF.
    See APAR PH51752 https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/PH51752

    This Idea is being marked delivered.

  • Admin
    Basil Kanneth
    Reply
    |     Nov 23, 2022

    This Idea is being accepted and will be updated once put into plan.

  • Admin
    Basil Kanneth
    Reply
    |     Nov 8, 2022

    This Idea is still being investigated internally.

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