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Microfocus Cobol Migration to IBM Cobol for AIX

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Farha #1 / 6	Microfocus Cobol Migration to IBM Cobol for AIX :confused: Hello Everyone : I'm new to this forum. Our company is in the process of moving away from "Microfocus Cobol" to "IBM's Cobol for AIX". I'm not sure if anyone else has been involved in recent licensing changes Microfocus has established. But they are too expensive for our clients. IBM's Cobol ( which I was surprised to find out is too, made by Microfocus' ) is licensed much more affordably. Has anyone gone thru the migration process from MF Cobol, to IBM Cobol for AIX ? If so, can you plz. forward me any comments, notes, documentations ? I would be very greatful for any help. I will revisit this forum daily to look for any updates. My experiences with other forums have been less than desirable. I hope this will change. taking the time to read my piece. Looking forward to your comments. Thanks. Farhad. -- www.MainFrameForum.com - USENET Gateway
Tue, 22 Mar 2005 06:45:40 GMT

William M. Klei #2 / 6	Microfocus Cobol Migration to IBM Cobol for AIX Once upon a time and LONG ago, the IBM COBOL compiler for AIX was a "re-packaged" Micro Focus compiler. That hasn't been true for MANY years now. The IBM COBOL Set for AIX is entirely an IBM developed product. It is "pretty much" (I am not certain how much any more) the same as the IBM VisualAge COBOL product (for Windows - and used to be for OS/2). Its "front-end" is also fairly compatible with the IBM mainframe COBOLs (but again, I don't think they have been kept in sync - exactly). There are many, MANY, things (extensions) in the Micro Focus product that are NOT in the IBM compilers. I would suggest that you try compiling your existing COBOL source code with Micro Focus and the "FLAG(COBOL370)" directive. This will tell you which extensions you are using in existing code that will NOT work with the IBM compiler. This may be large - or it may be small (depending on exactly how you have coded your programs). NOTE WELL: The FLAG(COBOL370) directive is NOT current with the IBM compiler. There may be SOME items that it will flag - that are now supported with IBM COBOL Set for AIX - for example, COMP-5 may get flagged, but is currently supported by IBM. However, this setting should give you a pretty good idea of the amount of source-code changes that will be involved. Run-time changes (such as different results for arithmetic expressions) are another matter, but usually not TOO bad. -- Bill Klein wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com Quote: > :confused: > Hello Everyone : > I'm new to this forum. Our company is in the process of moving away from > "Microfocus Cobol" to "IBM's Cobol for AIX". I'm not sure if anyone else > has been involved in recent licensing changes Microfocus has > established. But they are too expensive for our clients. IBM's Cobol ( > which I was surprised to find out is too, made by Microfocus' ) is > licensed much more affordably. > Has anyone gone thru the migration process from MF Cobol, to IBM > Cobol for AIX ? > If so, can you plz. forward me any comments, notes, documentations ? I > would be very greatful for any help. I will revisit this forum daily to > look for any updates. My experiences with other forums have been less > than desirable. I hope this will change. > taking the time to read my piece. Looking forward to your comments. > Thanks. Farhad. > -- > www.MainFrameForum.com - USENET Gateway
Tue, 22 Mar 2005 06:56:10 GMT

Farha #3 / 6	Microfocus Cobol Migration to IBM Cobol for AIX Thank you Will, I really appreciate your taking the time to respond to my question. I will share this information with our programmers and development team who maintain our suite of applications. I'm not as familiar with Cobol programming as I should be, but they are. I will soon post their comments and share them with the forum members. Thank you again for your help. Farhad. -- www.MainFrameForum.com - USENET Gateway
Wed, 23 Mar 2005 00:00:44 GMT

Ira Baxte #4 / 6	Microfocus Cobol Migration to IBM Cobol for AIX If these COBOL dialects differ significantly, (and I think they do), a manual conversion could be very expensive and error prone. We offer automated conversion tools and services. See http://www.semdesigns.com/Products/Services/LegacyMigration.html. Our tools know COBOL, and we can explain differing dialects to them easily. -- Ira D. Baxter, Ph.D., CTO 512-250-1018 Semantic Designs, Inc. www.semdesigns.com Quote: > :confused: > Hello Everyone : > I'm new to this forum. Our company is in the process of moving away from > "Microfocus Cobol" to "IBM's Cobol for AIX". I'm not sure if anyone else > has been involved in recent licensing changes Microfocus has > established. But they are too expensive for our clients. IBM's Cobol ( > which I was surprised to find out is too, made by Microfocus' ) is > licensed much more affordably. > Has anyone gone thru the migration process from MF Cobol, to IBM > Cobol for AIX ? > If so, can you plz. forward me any comments, notes, documentations ? I > would be very greatful for any help. I will revisit this forum daily to > look for any updates. My experiences with other forums have been less > than desirable. I hope this will change. > taking the time to read my piece. Looking forward to your comments. > Thanks. Farhad. > -- > www.MainFrameForum.com - USENET Gateway
Sun, 27 Mar 2005 00:22:45 GMT

Paul Raulerso #5 / 6	Microfocus Cobol Migration to IBM Cobol for AIX They are definitely different enough that it might be worth your time to look into it Ira. I think the future market size is pretty small though. -Paul Quote: > If these COBOL dialects differ significantly, > (and I think they do), a manual conversion could > be very expensive and error prone. > We offer automated conversion tools and services. > See http://www.semdesigns.com/Products/Services/LegacyMigration.html. > Our tools know COBOL, and we can explain > differing dialects to them easily. > -- > Ira D. Baxter, Ph.D., CTO 512-250-1018 > Semantic Designs, Inc. www.semdesigns.com > > :confused: > > Hello Everyone : > > I'm new to this forum. Our company is in the process of moving away from > > "Microfocus Cobol" to "IBM's Cobol for AIX". I'm not sure if anyone else > > has been involved in recent licensing changes Microfocus has > > established. But they are too expensive for our clients. IBM's Cobol ( > > which I was surprised to find out is too, made by Microfocus' ) is > > licensed much more affordably. > > Has anyone gone thru the migration process from MF Cobol, to IBM > > Cobol for AIX ? > > If so, can you plz. forward me any comments, notes, documentations ? I > > would be very greatful for any help. I will revisit this forum daily to > > look for any updates. My experiences with other forums have been less > > than desirable. I hope this will change. > > taking the time to read my piece. Looking forward to your comments. > > Thanks. Farhad. > > -- > > www.MainFrameForum.com - USENET Gateway
Sun, 27 Mar 2005 10:24:43 GMT

Ira Baxte #6 / 6	Microfocus Cobol Migration to IBM Cobol for AIX It doesn't necessarily have to be a "market" to make it interesting. A single customer with sufficient need already has the interest. We make it possible to build custom translations economically (compared to almost any other method). We can argue about whether it is "economical enough", because it isn't dirt cheap, but that's really up to the customer. -- Ira D. Baxter, Ph.D., CTO 512-250-1018 Semantic Designs, Inc. www.semdesigns.com Quote: > They are definitely different enough that it might be worth your time to look into it Ira. I think the future market size is pretty Quote: > small though. > -Paul Quote: > > If these COBOL dialects differ significantly, > > (and I think they do), a manual conversion could > > be very expensive and error prone. > > We offer automated conversion tools and services. > > See http://www.semdesigns.com/Products/Services/LegacyMigration.html. > > Our tools know COBOL, and we can explain > > differing dialects to them easily. > > -- > > Ira D. Baxter, Ph.D., CTO 512-250-1018 > > Semantic Designs, Inc. www.semdesigns.com > > > :confused: > > > Hello Everyone : > > > I'm new to this forum. Our company is in the process of moving away from > > > "Microfocus Cobol" to "IBM's Cobol for AIX". I'm not sure if anyone else > > > has been involved in recent licensing changes Microfocus has > > > established. But they are too expensive for our clients. IBM's Cobol ( > > > which I was surprised to find out is too, made by Microfocus' ) is > > > licensed much more affordably. > > > Has anyone gone thru the migration process from MF Cobol, to IBM > > > Cobol for AIX ? > > > If so, can you plz. forward me any comments, notes, documentations ? I > > > would be very greatful for any help. I will revisit this forum daily to > > > look for any updates. My experiences with other forums have been less > > > than desirable. I hope this will change. > > > taking the time to read my piece. Looking forward to your comments. > > > Thanks. Farhad. > > > -- > > > www.MainFrameForum.com - USENET Gateway
Sun, 27 Mar 2005 22:55:31 GMT

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