Issue 4744: We only need one COBOL Data Division metamodel. (cwm-rtf)
Source: International Business Machines (Dr. Daniel T. Chang, dtchang(at)us.ibm.com)
Nature: Revision
Severity: Significant
Summary: CWM vol. 2 3.1 says "The concepts and ideas implicit in the definition of the COBOL language's DATA DIVISION were one of the earliest (if not the first) formalizations of the ubiquitous record model. A COBOL program contains much more than just record descriptions. However, because neither CWM nor UML attempt to describe programming languages directly, only the DATA DIVISION is described here. The model presented here is compliant to the COBOL 85 language standard [COBOL]." 

UML Profile for EAI 14.1 says "The goal of this COBOL model is to capture the information that would be found in the Data Division." . 

Both define COBOL Data Division metamodels with different levels of detail. We only need one COBOL Data Division metamodel.
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December 11, 2001: received issue
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Name: Dave Smith and Dan Chang 
Company: Deere (Dave) and IBM (Dan) 
mailFrom: SmithDaveC@JohnDeere.com (Dave) and dtchang@us.ibm.com (IBM) 
Notification: No 
Specification: CWM 
Section: Vol 2, Ch 3 
FormalNumber: ad/2001-02-02 
Version: 1.0 (and draft 1.1) 
RevisionDate: 2 Feb 2001 
Page: 3-27 to 3-54 
Nature: Revision 
Severity: Significant 
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Description

CWM vol. 2 3.1 says "The concepts and ideas implicit in the definition
of the COBOL language's DATA DIVISION were one of the earliest (if not
the first) formalizations of the ubiquitous record model. A COBOL
program contains much more than just record descriptions. However,
because neither CWM nor UML attempt to describe programming languages
directly, only the DATA DIVISION is described here. The model
presented here is compliant to the COBOL 85 language standard
[COBOL]." 

UML Profile for EAI 14.1 says "The goal of this COBOL model is to
capture the information that would be found in the Data Division." . 

Both define COBOL Data Division metamodels with different levels of
detail. We only need one COBOL Data Division metamodel.