I've done a little experimenting with this and it is very nicely done. There is/was even a CICS implementation for Linux that used the compiler on the back end. The chief developer of the CICS solution presented at SHARE a few times.
On 05/05/2014 11:49 AM, Neale Ferguson wrote:
I saw the following on a LinkedIn group: "Customers who are proposed to migrate from zOS to zLinux may have a concern about the presence of cobol programs. Porting the cobol code to a different language not only may affect the migration costs, but it also may be painful if not even unsuccessful. So, a cobol compiler for zLinux may be picked from the market, but again, this may heavily affect the project costs. The adoption of the OpenCobol compiler might be a fine option. The OpenCobol compiler is an open source project whose site is https://sourceforge.net/projects/open-cobol/"; I created a s390x and src RPM for it based on the latest tarball. They are available at http://download.sinenomine.net/opencobol/ I've run the test suite and it passes but haven't tried any code of my own (not being a prolific COBOL programmer). Neale ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
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