Fujitsu Data Editor for SPARC Architecture
- Does NetCOBOL for SPARC Architecture support 64 bit?
- Why have you called the product “NetCOBOL for SPARC Architecture” rather than “NetCOBOL for Solaris”? Wouldn’t that fit better with your other product names?
- Why did Fujitsu choose to put COBOL on the Solaris platform when you seem to have a strong focus on .NET and, in Japan, on Linux?
- Why do some of the features, like PowerFORM runtime support and the Data Editor, require development tools on Windows?
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Does NetCOBOL for SPARC Architecture support 64 bit?
Answer: NetCOBOL runs as a 32 bit application within 64 bit versions of the operating system. The file system supports files up to the 64 bit limit.
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Why have you called the product “NetCOBOL for SPARC Architecture” rather than “NetCOBOL for Solaris”? Wouldn’t that fit better with your other product names?
Answer: We worked with the folk at Sun to come up with a name that worked for their use of trademark guidelines. NetCOBOL for SPARC Architecture was the best option.
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Why did Fujitsu choose to put COBOL on the Solaris platform when you seem to have a strong focus on .NET and, in Japan, on Linux?
Answer: Fujitsu has a close relationship with Sun. PRIMEPOWER and, more recently, SPARC Enterprise Servers, run the Solaris Operating System and are considered best in class in this market segment. It is therefore natural that Fujitsu provides its leading NetCOBOL compiler on this platform.
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Why do some of the features, like PowerFORM runtime support and the Data Editor, require development tools on Windows?
Answer: Whereas the operating system level, runtime support for these features is pretty-well built into the NetCOBOL software so is available on any platform on which NetCOBOL is implemented, the interactive interfaces of tools like PowerFORM and Data Editor would need to be rewritten to make them available on Solaris. This would be a considerable effort. We determined our users would be better served if we just focused on maintaining the development tools on one platform, Windows, which many of you already are using anyway.
