On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 5:10 PM, J. Leslie Turriff <[email protected]> wrote: > On Monday 05 May 2014 10:49:22 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 > > Be advised that OpenCOBOL is now part of the GCC project > <http://sourceforge.net/projects/open-cobol/> : > > Description > > GNU Cobol (formerly OpenCOBOL) is a free COBOL compiler. cobc translates COBOL > to executable using intermediate C sources, providing full access to nearly > all C libraries. > > OpenCOBOL 1.1 has been uploaded, with full support for SCREEN SECTION. > > GNU Cobol 1.1 co-posted to ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnucobol (is available here, > too) > > A superb manual by Gary Cutler can be found at > http://opencobol.add1tocobol.com/OpenCOBOL%20Programmers%20Guide.pdf > > FAQ and How-To at http://opencobol.add1tocobol.com/ > > OpenCOBOL is > > Copyright (C) 2001-2009 Keisuke Nishida > Copyright (C) 2007-2012 Roger While > > This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under > the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software > Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. > > Leslie
Thanks for that link to the OpenCOBOL manual! I will, personally, be more convinced that it is a GNU project when it is moved to Savanah and placed in a git repository. But that is just my own feelings on things. I have used OpenCOBOL to compile a number of batch z/OS COBOL programs. The compiles when very well. Unfortunately, I can't really do much testing due to lack of proper infrastructure on my Linux system - which is on my Intel PC and not on the z. I "hang out" here as a learning experience (in a positive sense, not in my usually negative sense). I wonder how it compares to zCOBOL at http://www.z390.org/zcobol/. OpenCOBOL compiles to C and then to an executable. zCOBOL compiles to HLASM source, then uses z390 to compile HLASM to Java bytecode. At least according to that web site. I haven't used it yet. -- There is nothing more pleasant than traveling and meeting new people! Genghis Khan Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
