| William M. Klein 2005-04-25, 8:55 pm |
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I cannot speak for all users of all COBOL compilers. HOWEVER, I know for a fact
that both Micro Focus users and IBM (z/OS) users put enough "pressure" on their
vendors to spend significant resources on developing (and already) delivering
"native language support" for XML in COBOL.
As far as z/OS goes, this is the ONLY major enhancements (to the language) in
the last two releases of Enterprise COBOL - and the input that I have heard is
that this is turning out to be the BIGGEST justification for several (many?) IBM
mainframe sites for upgrading the release of their compilers - since Y2K.
Again, I won't speak for users of other compilers - and I can't speak for
whether either approach IS meeting user demand. (The Micro Focus approach is
similar to what ISO is considering; the IBM approach is viewed as
"complimentary" by IBM - but is quite different from what ISO is doing).
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Bill Klein
wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com
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