On Mar 8, 2007, at 8:41 AM, Charles Mills wrote:
The current LE "COBOL Migration" manual lists a fair amount of
analysis and
work to determine and or provide for upward compatibility. I
believe them.
When a customer has hundreds of "not recently touched" business-
critical
programs, and no one who knows how they work, and no budget for
conversion,
and typical corporate tolerance for risk (i.e., near zero) it is a
HUGE
obstacle, and there is no reasoning it away, I fear.
Charles
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As I have said before you have to be a lawyer before reading the
book. Be extremely *PARANOID* about wording they leave a lot of gray
area (on purpose?) as well. Don't just accept their words at face
value either. Read between the lines (and hopefully have good ESP) .
Having said that, there is some compatibility, but having said that.
Be prepared to grow gray hair and be a political outcast because of
issues that will probably come up.
Ed
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