[Info-vax] General Availability of 9.2 for x86-64

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 7/15/2022 10:35 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 7/15/22 09:08, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 7/15/2022 9:02 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> On 2022-07-14, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>>> https://vmssoftware.com/about/roadmap/ says:
>>>>
>>>> July
>>>> OpenVMS V9.2 (Limited Production Release)
>>>> ...
>>>> Native compilers with LLVM backend code generator:
>>>>       BLISS, XMACRO, C++ (Phase 1)
>>>> ...
>>>> July-November
>>>> ...
>>>> Additional native compilers
>>>>       C, COBOL, and C++ (Phase 2 ? VMS Extensions)
>>>
>>> Interesting that COBOL is a way higher priority than Fortran.
>>
>> I think that was to be expected.
> 
> Wonder where all of these VMS COBOL users are.

You do see COBOL questions here occasionally.

It seems fair to assume that some portion of VMS
sites has some business applications in Cobol
using either index-sequential files or Rdb (or maybe
even traditional Oracle).

Arne