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 Converting S/36 COBOL programs on AS/400 to ILE COBOL
Application development, COBOL
Can anyone give me some tips/information and/or names of third parties with conversion software to automate this process? Thank you...

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ASKED: February 17, 2006  5:20 PM
UPDATED: June 30, 2006  11:27 AM
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The primary difficulty in conversion concerns the creation of the external descriptions of the database. In particular you have to determine how to handle the multi-format files that are rife in S/36 style applications.

I know that Linoma (www.linomasoftware.com) markets an S/36 conversion utility – but I’m not sure if it handles COBOL.

Certainly at the time the 400 first came out, there were a number of tools that did conversions – but I haven’t heard of any for a long time. However, I think this will change soon due to IBM’s announcement that S/36 compilers will move to PRPQ status with the next release.

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Still need help? .. We’re PIR Group. We specialize in automated migration tools. We are just about to start a project for another company .. we also can do your OCL into CL

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