Did think of that but .. as GNU Cobol is written for Linux I think
migrating over to the mainframe will take a lot of knowledge I do not
have, such as:
1. Dealing with the different way files are handled.
2. Working out how to get the separate elements that make it up (along
with the different libraries to be added and linked together.
3. any other things to get in the way.
There must be a reason why no one has done it and I was not a Systems
Programmer but an application one using in Cobol sometimes in C, ADA,
Argol68R, Fortran, REXX and BAL and Macro Assembler - a very, very long
time ago ooh, yes nearly forgot RPG for migrating unit record equipment
over to the mainframe - in the 60's. Crap am I that old, nuts.
Must have forgotten a few
Vince
On 24/04/15 01:17, Mike Schwab wrote:
GCC370 and GCC (380) are available to compile it.
On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 7:11 PM, Vince Coen <[email protected]> wrote:
Exactly, although I run it on a AMD FX8350 along with a BBS, web and ftp
servers and other stuff including links to OS/390 and Z/OS when I am in the
mood to see what more modern stuff is about/going.
At least the later Cobol compilers tends to work a lot better than ANSI
Cobol which was always a dog at least on the site's I worked at so when
OS/VS Cobol came out it must have been the fastest migrations in history :)
Pity I can't find a more recent compiler to use under MVS Turnkey 4 Upd 7.
Now the next trick and no I don't know how is to migrate GNU Cobol v2.n (was
Open Cobol) over to it which has a few functions over the current IBM
offerings.
OK, may be not in my lifetime.
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