[Cobolforgcc-announce] Fw: IBM "drop service date" for COBOL for MVS & VM

[William M. K. <wm...@ix...>]

FYI,
  (for those of you "interested" in IBM mainframe COBOL variations - and
who haven't already seen this yourself)  I just posted this in
comp.lang.cobol

"William M. Klein" <wm...@no...> wrote in message
news:<8p32cr$ht8$1...@sl...>...
> FYI,
>   Today  IBM announced a Dec 31, 2001 "drop of service" date for IBM
COBOL
> for MVS & VM.  (Usually such announcements are for the US - check your
own
> "support dates" if you are in some other country.)
>
> This product is "replaced" by IBM COBOL for OS/390 & VM.
>
> See:
>  http://www.ibmlink.ibm.com/usalets&parms=H_900-220
>
> (This announcement also includes "drop dates" for various other
> product/releases such as TSO/E, IMS, DB2 etc.  It also tells what
> product/releases replace them)
>
> It *might* seem as if this means that there will be ONLY one
product/release
> of COBOL available for the "MVS" environment for the first time since
the
> early 1990's - HOWEVER, I have every reason to believe that there will
be
> another announcement this month (that hasn't been made yet) of a "new"
> release (version?) of COBOL for OS/390 & VM.
>
> Keep your eyes open (and I will "post" an announcement when I see it).
>
> --
> Bill Klein
>     wmklein <at> ix dot netcom dot com
>
>