Here is something new and something old for 2009. Come to SHARE session 8194 in Austin TX on March 3, 2009 at 8 AM for the first live demonstration of zcobol portable mainframe COBOL compiler which is written in z390 structured conditional macro assembler. zcobol supports multiple dialects of mainframe COBOL with the option to generate source and executable program code in any one of the following target languages:
1. HLASM compatible mainframe assembler for z390/z9/z10 2. Java for any J2SE platform 3. C++ for Windows platforms 4. HLA/MASM assembler for Intel platforms The intermediate source code generated by the zcobol compiler includes all data labels and paragraph labels for use in debugging when required. The initial release of zcobol is focused primarily on generating HLASM compatible assembler source and executable programs. The first release includes support for static and dynamic linking of both COBOL and assembler programs, EXEC CICS, and extensions for SOA messaging support to run called programs on remote servers. There are demo programs which can be compiled and executed in all 4 target language environments. And there are a rapidly growing number of regression tests. There is a dynamically loaded zcobol runtime module for complex functions and all the source code is included. Starting March 3, 2009, zcobol will be included in z390 releases and can be downloaded via www.z390.org. For more information on zcobol, visit www.zcobol.org and join the user discussion group: [email protected] zcobol is an open source project on sourceforge.net and volunteer developers interested in expanding zcobol support include code generation, code optimization, regression testing, documentation, demos, training materials, etc. are all welcome. Melvyn Maltz and I will be at SHARE for the presentation and demo and look forward to seeing you there. Don Higgins [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
