From rinehuls@access.digex.net Wed Jul 17 23:01:35 1996 Received: from access2.digex.net (qlrhmEbBUV1EY@access2.digex.net [205.197.245.193]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id XAA02248 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 23:01:33 +0200 Received: from localhost (rinehuls@localhost) by access2.digex.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA20604 ; for ; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 17:01:23 -0400 Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 17:01:23 -0400 (EDT) From: "william c. rinehuls" X-Sender: rinehuls@access2.digex.net To: sc22docs@dkuug.dk Subject: Document SC22 N2201 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces Secretariat: U.S.A. (ANSI) ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 N2201 July 1996 TITLE: FIMS Project Editor Report for the September 1996 JTC 1/SC22 Plenary SOURCE: Secretariat, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 WORK ITEM: N/A STATUS: N/A CROSS REFERENCE: N/A DOCUMENT TYPE: Project Editor's Report ACTION: To SC22 Member Bodies for information and preparation of position on the recommendation included in the Report. This Project Editor's Report and the action requested therein will be agenda items for the September 1996 JTC 1/SC22 Plenary. Address reply to: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Secretariat William C. Rinehuls 8457 Rushing Creek Court Springfield, VA 22153 USA Tel: +1 (703) 912-9680 Fax: +1 (703) 912-2973 email: rinehuls@access.digex.net __________________________________________________________________________ From: Dan Frantz ZKO2-2/R80 603-881-2272 15-Jul-1996 1542 -0400 Report from Project Editor for FIMS, 1996 The active item outstanding for this project is an amendment to 11730 to specify a COBOL/FIMS binding. Other items are to be handled in the U.S. National Body and receive fast track consideration in SC22. The ISO ballot for AMD 11730-1 passed successfully. However, I will not be submitting it for publication. The SC22 approved coordination plan was that the draft would undergo simulaneous ballot in ISO and in the U.S., yield simultaneous adoption of the same text. However, solicitation of U.S. voters for the COBOL/FIMS binding yielded less than ten voters, half of which were committee members. It is clear there is little U.S. interest in the binding, so there was no U.S. balloting on this issue. It would be inappropriate to publish an ISO standard via the national body sponsor route if the national body doesn't have the standard. Thus, there will be no submission of 11730-1 for publication. There has been little implementation activity on FIMS. The U.S. DoD's push for FIMS seems to have melted away. As a result, the CODASYL FIMS Committee has gone into hibernation with no further activity expected unless some implementation activity restarts. Similarly, there will be no activity from this project editor. The only request I have is to withdraw the COBOL binding project from SC22. It remains to be seen if the main FIMS project should be continued, but that decision might best be made after another year. Respectfully submitted, Dan Frantz