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VMS COBOL to ILE COBOL is easy _except_ for the screen handling. If it is all batch no problem. If it uses CICS it translates fairy easily to CICS/400 - if it is ISPF then that is tough.

There are tools out there - but not free. Haven't been involved with that scene for about 15 years so the names have changed. Suggest you post this ? on the COBOL400 list - lots of ex-mainframers there - some of whom must have converted.

DCL conversion to modern CL is not too bad - again the tools that do the migration usually include this.

Basic - probably the closest conversion these days would be to PHP - but even if you had basic still on the box it wouldn't map that well - I seem to remember problems with MF conversions with the old BASIC. Maybe there is a basic that would run in PASE


Jon Paris

www.Partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com



On Feb 3, 2011, at 11:43 AM, midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Just acquired open VMS system(s). Are there any
preferred tools with which I can assimilate DCL, VMS COBOL, VMS BASIC,
etc. into an ISeries environment? Thanks.


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