Inquiries concerning C and COBOL languages

Products

• CA CIS
• CA Common Services for z/OS
• CA 90s Services
• CA Database Management Solutions for DB2 for z/OS
• CA Common Product Services Component
• CA Common Services
• CA Datacom/AD
• CA ecoMeter Server Component FOC
• CA Easytrieve Report Generator for Common Services
• CA Infocai Maintenance
• CA IPC
• Unicenter CA-JCLCheck Common Component
• CA Mainframe VM Product Manager
• CA Chorus Software Manager
• CA On Demand Portal
• CA Service Desk Manager - Unified Self Service
• CA PAM Client for Linux for zSeries
• CA Mainframe Connector for Linux on System z
• CA Graphical Management Interface
• CA Web Administrator for Top Secret
• CA CA- Xpertware
• CA Compress Data Compression for MVS
• CA Compress Data Compression for Fujitsu

Issue/Introduction

One of our customer is planning to apply the preventive maintenance IBM PTF/APAR.
They queried us as there are possibilities that some PTFs will affect programs written in C language and COBOL.

We are going to apply IBM APAR PI36683 (PTF: UI36153, UI38933) which has information about Enterprise for COBOL V 5.1 and XML - CODE for preventive maintenance and want to know that :

- Is this product coded in C language or Enterprise for COBOL V 5.1?

- Does this product use XML - CODE?

Environment

z/OS v2.1

Resolution

For the most part they all use assembler followed by C, Metal C and some JAVA. No COBOL.
Also, it doesn't use XML-CODE internally.