Re: Converting assembler to COBOL help

2022-07-10 Thread Mitch Mccluhan
Hello, There is a vendor BP that does this sort of thing with an automated tool. Mitch -Original Message- From: W Mainframe <01304632a58d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Sat, Jul 9, 2022 9:23 am Subject: Re: Converting assembler to

Re: Converting assembler to COBOL help

2022-07-10 Thread Seymour J Metz
, July 8, 2022 6:31 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Converting assembler to COBOL help Greetings mainframers! This has porobbaly been asked and answered, but are there tools or companies that can convert or help to rewrite assembler applications or just programs into COBOL? Any suggestions

Re: Converting assembler to COBOL help

2022-07-10 Thread Seymour J Metz
Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Farley, Peter x23353 [031df298a9da-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu] Sent: Saturday, July 9, 2022 2:25 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Converting assembler to COBOL help That's a reasonable suggestion. Many pitfalls to watch

Re: Converting assembler to COBOL help

2022-07-09 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
assembler to COBOL help On Sat, 9 Jul 2022 18:10:54 +, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: >Answers in the order of your questions: > Wouldn't it be more legible to interleave your answers rather than "in the order of ..."? -- This message and any attachments are intended

Re: Converting assembler to COBOL help

2022-07-09 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
aturday, July 9, 2022 10:23 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Converting assembler to COBOL help Hi,A suggestion... I did similar thing some years ago using z390 Macro Language. In summary you can create macros and replace used macros by Cobol statements.The macros just punch Cobol state

Re: Converting assembler to COBOL help

2022-07-09 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sat, 9 Jul 2022 18:10:54 +, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: >Answers in the order of your questions: > Wouldn't it be more legible to interleave your answers rather than "in the order of ..."? -- gil -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Converting assembler to COBOL help

2022-07-09 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
e and in some cases on 360 hardware. Peter -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Friday, July 8, 2022 7:54 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Converting assembler to COBOL help On Fri, 8 Jul 2022 22:51:38 +, Farley

Re: Converting assembler to COBOL help

2022-07-09 Thread W Mainframe
Hi,A suggestion... I did similar thing some years ago using z390 Macro Language. In summary you can create macros and replace used macros by Cobol statements.The macros just punch Cobol statements to an output.I converted about 250 critical Cobol code.Main question... Is it 100%, of course

Re: Converting assembler to COBOL help

2022-07-08 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 8 Jul 2022 22:51:38 +, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: > >... The business logic was totally scrambled, sometimes by "old-timer" > tricks like non-reentrant branch gates and other such no-no's under current > maintainability and pipeline-flush avoidance rules, other times just by >

Re: Converting assembler to COBOL help

2022-07-08 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tom Ross Sent: Friday, July 8, 2022 6:32 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Converting assembler to COBOL help Greetings mainframers! This has porobbaly been asked and answered, but are there tools or companies that

Re: Converting assembler to COBOL help

2022-07-08 Thread Joe Monk
Why in the heck would you want to do that? Joe On Fri, Jul 8, 2022 at 5:32 PM Tom Ross wrote: > Greetings mainframers! > > This has porobbaly been asked and answered, but are there tools or > companies > that can convert or help to rewrite assembler applications or just programs > into COBOL?

Converting assembler to COBOL help

2022-07-08 Thread Tom Ross
Greetings mainframers! This has porobbaly been asked and answered, but are there tools or companies that can convert or help to rewrite assembler applications or just programs into COBOL? Any suggestions? Cheers, TomR >> COBOL is the Language of the Future! << AKA: Captain COBOL,