> My management is actually considering moving certain cobal apps to > Linux,they see savings on the IFL, if we can run cobal there, > has any one > done this on the z/series, or even intel. If not are there > any sites I can > be pointed to for info.
Yes it can be done, but don't expect it to be a "copy, compile, go" move. Most of the Linux COBOL dialects don't have all the IBM extensions (MicroFocus COBOL is probably the best known of the bunch), and GNU COBOL is still a little weak on implementation. There is another vendor of a COBOL compiler and runtime whose name escapes me at the moment -- check the ISV software matrix on the IBM Linux WWW site. If you have lots of VS COBOL or COBOL II programs, you may also want to consider whether you should use CMS COBOL instead of COBOL on Linux. The CMS COBOL compilers run fine on IFLs. It'd take a special bid from IBM, but that's not a big deal these days, they're used to it. It'd be a lot less conversion work, and the debugging tools are MUCH better on CMS. You'd also still have the ability to read z/OS datasets directly w/o going through the NFS overhead. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
