I am sure you all know IBM has announced that IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS 4.2.0 will be withdrawn from service on Sept 30, 2021.
IBM has encouraged to plan and start migrating mainframe COBOL products to COBOL v6 as soon as possible.
CA Telon is an application generator productivity tool which has been helping organizations speed up the application development process, increase programmer productivity by automating tedious and repetitive development tasks. CA Telon has components such as TDF (Telon Development Facility) and other utilities which are itself been programmed in COBOL v4.2.
The benefits COBOL v6 and onwards brings to producing optimal code, exploiting the latest hardware, and improve COBOL performance without source code changes have led us to work on upgrading CA Telon TDF and other utility code to be migrated to COBOL 6.2.
We will soon be releasing a PTF that will be ensure COBOL 6.2 compliance. Watch this space and stay tuned. If you have any questions please feel free to reach out to me.
Thanks,
Sameer Mukoo
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Principal Product Manager
Broadcom
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