On 14May05:1549+0000, 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).
Debian has an opencobol deb in main as well. The homepage link still points to opencobol.org, but that site now points folks to SourceForge. Is anybody on this list running Debian on zSeries? (I'd be happy to that if someone provided me with a virtual machine to do so. :-) ) -- <not cent from sell> May the LORD God bless you exceedingly abundantly! Dave_Craig______________________________________________ "So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe." __--from_Nightfall_by_Asimov/Silverberg_________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
