COBOLers

[Weary in West Chester]

Little help! I need someone who has the HP cobol compiler to type cobrun and paste the output here for me to see. I have a client who thinks he has Merant MicroFocus installed, but the output of his cobrun says:
Cobol/HP-UX HP35326 B.11.25 Copyright Hewlett Packard Co. 1989-2001. Can someone help me out? Thanks again.

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

Hi Weary:

This is the output from a known Merant 4.1 on 10.20:
[marvin]/home/cstephen: cobrun -v
/opt/cobol/cobdir/rts32
Cobol/HP-UX HP35326 B.12.40 Copyright Hewlett-Packard Co. 1989-2001
V4.1 revision 30 build 10/10/2 G; 01700. Run Time System O1UPK/BMB/01240D


and here is the same on 11i:
bugs:/root# cobrun -v
/opt/cobol/cobdir/rts32
Cobol/HP-UX HP35326 B.13.40 Copyright Hewlett-Packard Co. 1989-2001
V4.1 revision 30 build 10/10/2 G; 01700. Run Time System O1UPR/BMB/01340G

Now I barely use this stuff myself, I'll stick to C++/Pascal/C thank you very much.

Regards, Clay

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Hi again Weary:

The B.11.25 indicates that the system has not been patched/upgraded in quite a while but it is MicroFocus (before Merant) COBOL.

[David Lieberman_1]

Hi Weary,

This is the output from MicroFocus Object COBOL 4.1 on 11.00/64bit (Vclass)

$ cobrun -v
/opt/cobol/cobdir/rts32
Cobol/HP-UX HP35326 B.13.35 Copyright Hewlett-Packard Co. 1989-2001
V4.1 revision 20 build 10/10/2 G; 34898. Run Time System OXUPR/BMB/01335L

It is HP product B2433EB, installed on 3/6/2000.

BTW, MicroFocus is no longer owned by Merant - it is owned by Golden Gate Capital and Parallax Capital.
http://www.merant.com/resource_center/press/releases/081301.asp

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Folks:

COBOL is one of those things nobody seems to want to admit to knowing. It's a language that won't die.

I knew MicroFocus = Merant, but I didn't know about the new owner. Thanks, David.

A bit of trivia which I hope you find amusing:

My own experience with the language is with Unisys (as it was Burroughs). As a stack machine, COBOL is an oxymoron of an implementation. In fact, the COBOL68 compiler source code [now defunct] had an Italian disclaimer from Dante. It's the sign over the portal to Hell: "Abandon hope all yee who enter here".

Regards!

...JRF...