RE: Converting from CICS (was no subject)

I appreciate your response.  I would agree with teaching us mainframers the
tricks of the 400.  I am sure there is a ton of stuff that we should be looking
at.

We are at the front end of the conversion.  We are not exactly what direction we
are going to be going.  We have looked at two 3rd party vendors that claim they
can convert all of our COBOL CICS to native.  The one bid we got back was
extremely pricey however.  We are trying to decide if we can get some help from
a vendor if we are going to have to do it ourselves, scary thought.  We are not
aware of any tools other than vendors to help convert CICS to native.  Are there
some out there?  We did look into CICS/400.  It was told to us that IBM does not
support it anymore and has not done so for 4 years now.  It appears that there
are only a very small handful who use it.  Is there more about CICS/400 that we
are missing?

Again, Thanks so much for your help in our conversion.





"Jon Paris" <Jon.Paris@Partner400.com> on 12/23/2001 05:26:03 PM

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Subject:  RE: Converting from CICS (was no subject)



In general you do not need to worry about such things on the 400.  In fact
one of the hardest things I have found in trying to teach mainframers about
the 400 is that there a great many things you don't have to worry about!!
The 400s virtual storage system does a great job.  If you have a valid
reason for doing a transfer of control, it can be done - but the number of
times you need to do it are few and far between - and certainly not usually
for the kind of reason you mention.

How are you doing the conversion?  Are you using tools to convert the CIVS
to native or are you using CICS/400 ?

Jon Paris
Partner400




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