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Technology Stocks : Y2K (Year 2000) Stocks: An Investment Discussion -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ThirdEye who wrote (8995)	1/17/1998 10:28:00 AM
From: Hoatzin	Respond to of 13949

taoman, TED and all: I was a little surprised to learn that the Vertex 2000 tool does not address versions of COBOL other than MVS COBOL II. (And not because I understand MVS internals, like TED!) I do not have figures for how much code is out there from other compilers (there are many, but strangely none called COBOL I ). I suspect that within that subset lie some of the worst problems: programs without source code and/or documentation, the ones that no one dares touch (or upgrade to COBOL II), because they may not work afterwards. It seems to me that these situations would be ideal targets for Vertex 2000. TED, a question for you: can I turn off the CA(PEX!) opitimizer without re-compiling the program? My understanding from your wonderful write-up is that Vertex 2000 does what it does without requiring a compile. But if I have to turn off the optimizer... I wish the folks at Source Recovery would go public! Kevin