Re: Cobol compiler date

> Rick Fochtman wrote:

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> Please don't confuse MFT with OS/360. MFT/MVT/PCP were system
> generation options for OS/360. The DLIB datasets were the same for
> all "flavors" of OS/360.

Sorry Rick, last place I was looking before posting was Jay's OS/360 build web pages:

http://www.conmicro.com/hercos360

Driving system which generated the Stage2 job stream which is what I was most interested in is MFT.  The system being built is MVT.

> While the "source" code for OS/360 is (mostly) available, you are 
> correct in saying that the updates to the source code may not have
> kept pace with the object code updates. But IFOXxx was never part of 
> OS/360. It appeared with the first release of MVS.

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Didn't mean to confuse anyone with this.  IFOX, which came with 3.8j, had various PTF updates in the DLIBs without the source being updated.  Paul G (?) spent some time on updating the IFOX source we had to get it to generate the distributed modules.

A side effect of the compiler date zap reminded me that the OS/360 libraries might suffer from the same type thing.  Also that they were assembled on OS/360 and not on MVS3.8j.  There are probably some MAClib changes between the two environments.  Whether it would benefit the compilers and run time libraries to be generated from source on MVS3.8j is unknown at present.

Phil