Re: COBOL/ILE questions

We did this about 10 years ago --- and actually found a company to convert
our old CICS programs to run natively on the iSeries--- this was done on
V3R7 programs and are still running on V5R4!

As I remember, batch programs were a piece of cake --- change select
statements and a few other minor changes.

One problem area we did run into was that in straight VSAM, we had variable
length files - which were a big no-no to the iSeries --- so we had to
change them to fixed length at maximum occurrence.  Files and file formats
were definitely more "fun" than the code.

Dale Nieswiadomy

Livingston County Information & Technology Services
(585) 243-7113

dnieswiadomy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



                                                                           
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Cross-posted to WDSCI-l.

Within the next year, we will be migrating COBOL/VSE programs from the
VSE/ESA environment to iSeries COBOL/ILE. Is there anyone out there that
has
done this and would be willing to share the significant differences between

the two
formats of COBOL? If we can identify these differences I could probably
write a filter program that would change the sources automatically so that
those issues are dealt with.

Also, a small sample COBOL/ILE program that opens and reads a "file" and
prints a report along with the accompanying CL required to execute the
program
would be very helpful. Anyone game? TIA.

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Regards,

Michael Rosinger
Systems Programmer / DBA
Computer Credit, Inc.
640 West Fourth Street
Winston-Salem, NC  27101
336-761-1524
m rosinger at cciws dot com


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