Re: Migrating from AS/400 to MicroFocus

I did this for an HP9000 running Micro Focus COBOL. It's not difficult, just
time consuming. Things to remember are the EBCDIC-ASCII conversion (no big
deal, done automatically by FTP) and packed fields on AS/400 PF. Easiest way
to get around that is to take your DDS for the PF, change packed fields to
zoned, create a new PF (different name) from the changed DDS, and then do a
CPYF from the old PF to the new PF. This will expand the fields. You'll
obviously need to have some conversion programs on the COBOL side to map the
data into the new fields.

From: Brad McDaniel <BMCDANIEL@ABSBC.ORG>
Reply-To: midrange-l@midrange.com
To: "'midrange-l@midrange.com'" <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Subject: Migrating from AS/400 to MicroFocus
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 12:52:27 -0600

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Hello All -

We are about to start migrating some apps off the AS/400 to the Windows
platform, and I was wondering if anyone had any experience with migrating
data in physical files on the 400 to files on the Windows platform (ISAM?)
that MicroFocus COBOL programs can read.  Is there an easy way?

Thanks,

Brad McDaniel
Business Systems & Development
Annuity Board, SBC
214-720-6546

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