Re: COBOL/ILE questions

Michael,

I would recommend joining that site so that you can 
gain access to the forums - its costs nothing to 
post/search the forums, so its really a no brainer. 
You may find some examples in the forums and the 
downloadable code section. If you need more examples
I might be able to scrape up a couple of older 
programs...as long as you don't mind seeing a GO TO
here and there ;-)

Terry Winchester 
Programmer/Analyst
________________________________
The Raymond Corporation
terry.winchester@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 

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Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 2:00 PM
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Subject: Re: [COBOL400-L] COBOL/ILE questions

Terry,

Thanks. I will look at the link.

We won't be porting any CICS applications. We have very few 
left. Most of 
them have been re-engineered as MS Visual C++ accessing our 
UDB/iSeries 
database remotely via TCP/IP. The remaining few CICS 
applications are slated 
to go that route as well (but maybe VB instead of Visual C++).

-- 
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
"Winchester Terry" <terry.winchester@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote 
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Michael,

In my experience, the biggest thing to adapt to
was screen/workstation I/O. We converted from a
homegrown VSE environment to an AS/400 purchased
package over a decade ago. We had to convert a few
of our CICS programs to interactive Cobol with
display files - this is a PITA.  If you have any
CICS interactive programs I hope your buying the
CICS environment for the iSeries otherwise you'll
spend a long time converting/rewriting code!

As far as batch programs, those that stick within
the Cobol Standards will require much less time
to convert - probably your SELECT statements will
need modification, etc.

Here's a short discussion from the one of the
other iSeries sites that may give a little more
info:

http://www.systeminetwork.com/isnetforums/showthread.php?t=304
1&highligh

t=VSE


Terry Winchester
Programmer/Analyst
________________________________
The Raymond Corporation
terry.winchester@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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Michael Rosinger

Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 12:44 PM
To: cobol400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [COBOL400-L] COBOL/ILE questions

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.

-- 
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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