Issue 602: Name scooping inappropriate within some mainframe environments (cobol-rtf) Source: (, ) Nature: Uncategorized Severity: Summary: Summary: Within some mainframe environments, only the first 8 bytes of a name within a CALL statement are significant. This restriction means that current mapping is not usable within such environments Resolution: issue resolved, closed Revised Text: Actions taken: July 11, 1997: received issue February 25, 1999: closed issue Discussion: End of Annotations:===== Return-Path: From: Dave Gamble To: "'cobol-rtf@omg.org'" Subject: COBOL Revision Task Force Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 12:25:40 +0100 Encoding: 93 TEXT Welcome to the COBOL Revision Task Force ================================ I do now humbly declare this Task Force open for business Using The List --------------------- To post an item to everybody within the OMG COBOL revision task force just e-mail to cobol-rtf@omg.org Adding, Removing, Changing names on the e-mail list ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ If you wish to have other names added, yours removed and just an address changed, please send your request to monika@omg.org identifying your request as a change for the cobol-rtf@omg.org. If you would like to have other names added to the list, please send your requests to monika@omg.org Timescales ---------------- Dates : Comments Due : Oct 3rd Revision Due : Nov 10th Its tight, but it is also an opportunity to bend it into a more palatable shape. Scope ---------- Rather than just twiddling with it and adjusting what we currently have, I would like to suggest that we can be quite radical. While the core of it will remain more or less intact (the basic mapping of IDL to specific COBOL types) there are a lot of other aspects that could be improved. I would like to suggest that we proceed by initially identifying areas of specific concern so that we can appreciate the scope of how radical we wish to be. Issues List ---------------- To get the ball rolling, here are some specific issues I would like to raise ISSUE 1 - Name Scooping inappropriate within some mainframe environments Within some mainframe environments, only the first 8 bytes of a name within a CALL statement are significant. This restriction means that the current mapping is not usable within such environments.