Folks,

We are not making good use of available resources. Jim Currey donated a brand new shiny server grade machine to the project, a fair while back now. We need to get rolling.

Aoirthoir; If you are finding time slices hard to find to get the OS setup, maybe we can help out. Once we get sshd running, then all hands may find it easier to slip in with assisting getting a shared development and repository setup and exposed to the world.

And I do mean we. Finding chunks of time can be a hard thing to do, but when they are available, it'd be nice to work toward some team goals and not simply sidetrips.

I'm really starting to get a warm fuzzy about OpenCOBOL's ability to run with the big dogs in the COBOL arena. We should run.

Cheers,
Brian

I'll be glad to help in any way.

OS Skills: z/OS, Solaris, OpenSolaris, Suse Linux, Debian/Ubuntu, Windows
Database Skills: IBM DB2, Oracle, MySQL

Regards,
Franklin

I'll be glad to help to.

OS Skills: Linux (Gentoo/Debian)
Database : PostgreSQL, Oracle (job)
Dev: Java (job), C, and little Cobol

Regards,
Angus

Btiffin and all thanks!

I've been quite for a while because I am putting together quite a few things on my end. This is before I even get to the things on the server the Jcurrey donated for us. Very soon I will be ready to post the plan and just what's going to be needed. As soon as I have that I will put out a call for volunteers and will take all of the help that is offered.

Hope that helps explain why I seem absent, though I'm really not.

Kind Regards,
Aoirthoir

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Still working on quite a few things yall. Am going to be ready for an online meeting soon. In the meantime wanted to get everyone's opinion of this:

http://www.portablelinuxapps.org/

They have a sourceforge link at the bottom, please be sure to follow that.

Kind Regards

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I would also like to volunteer to help.

BTW I have a question about contributing source code. I have made a small change to the source code to allow me to compile programs on an ascii machine as though the machine were a native ebcdic machine. This would be a useful feature to us, and I am wondering if your team would consider such a change. In the common.h header file there is some code (duplicated below) that checks the machine type:

#if ' ' == 0x40
#define COB_EBCDIC_MACHINE
#endif

Would the team be willing to make this check more flexible? For example, could the code be changed so that the above check could be overridden with a command line option or an environment variable?

Concerning volunteering: It would be good to know the skills you can and want to contribute (especially to this server environment and other stuff in gerenal).

Converning you EBCDIC request: Please always open a new thread for FR/Fixes/etc. If you're able to submit diffs (please use code tags for that) it would be easier to have a look at this (part diffs are OK if ther isn't missing the most stuff and you decribe what is missing there).
And yes, it would be possible to change that via some ./configure option (it must be done at compile time because it changes the behaviour of libcob) - if somebody wrappes the code with a new #ifdef (for example force_EBCDIC/force_ASCII) that is inserted to config.h by ./configure.

human

Hi, Human.

WRT the changes to common.h, I took a brute force approach. I changed

#if ' ' == 0x40
#define COB_EBCDIC_MACHINE
#endif

to this

#define COB_EBCDIC_MACHINE

A better solution, of course, would allow the default behavior with an override capability. I would be happy to provide a better solution if the team agrees that this would be a good idea.

WRT my skills:

Educ:
UT BS CSci, summa cum laude
UM MS CSci

Work Experience (28 years):

OS internals – Linux and various minis: C, C++, various other lost and forgotten scripts. Our company is currently interested in 390x distributions. I have some mainframe skills, but my team can provide in depth experience

Other Languages – various programming languages, scripting languages, SQL. I am not a COBOL jock, but I have studied COBOL in school, have used it for writing test cases, and am currently studying the OC code

Various Java-based Middleware products: app servers and obj servers – primarily IBM owned

Comm: SCA, TCP/IP, HTTP, Jason, REST, etc.

Sys Mgt

DB2