Interesting. I would presume your client received the source due to an escrow clause in the original contract. Any chance the original XBOL developer's estate would allow the product to be open-sourced for community development? Or is it abandonware at this point?
Peter -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Tony Thigpen Sent: Monday, April 5, 2021 1:03 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Meta languages [was: RE: Assembler Language Programming for IBM System z Servers] I am helping support a customer that has XBOL which generates COBOL. The original developer has passed away, but my client has the source. We have had to make changes for 'gone' COBOL verbs and such. I don't think CA's MetaCobol is currently marketed. I talked to them several years ago about it. I personally wrote and use a COBOL "pre-compiler" that handles a few things for me: 1) It let's you specify Working Storage, Linkage Section and Procedural Section in any COBOL copybook. It re-orders the generated code so that the parts are plugged into the output source in the right order. This makes it easy to put things like date routines within the program when such routines require working storage fields to do their calculations. 2) It calls 'calls' the CICS pre-processor before generating the final code. z/VSE does not have such an option currently. I do have some more I want to do with it, but have not had the time. I would like it to be more "macro like" for such things as BMS screens. Tony Thigpen -- This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
