Conversion from MF COBOL to C

sanfel_karan · New User Joined: 04 Jan 2006 Posts: 4

Hi All,

I've been experiencing a great journey of learning with ibmmainframes.com. I've not posted any queries until now, but had lot of references from various forums. I THANK one and all especially the moderators and the owners for providing such a big forum of solutions and thoughts.

I've a requirement for our client who wants to convert their existing MF COBOL programs to C.

If there are any tools available or any procedure for such conversions, can anyone help me in this regards???

Thanks alot in anticipation.

murmohk1 · Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 10:12 am

Karan,

priya_makkara · New User Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 2 Location: Hyderabad

Hi ,

Can you send your requirement so that I can tell you the suggestion.

Regards
Priya.S

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 1:35 pm

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 3:27 pm

as enrico indicated, COBOL and C are two very different languages. I would not even try to convert the cobol to c on a program by program basis. I would analyze the processes and functions with a C (OO) perspective and create a new development plan.

sanfel_karan · New User Joined: 04 Jan 2006 Posts: 4

Thanks for all your suggestions.

As told by everyone, our initial thought was that - we will definitely have challenges in making this conversion so generic - we will have to take it pgm by pgm and make it..but we got some lead from one of the sources that there are tools available for such conversion - but not really sure about it...

To add to it, we also have some programs running in RF (Radio frequency mode) application with screens receiving the values through RF/barcode guns and the data getting trasmitted via RF network to the main database (Oracle). We are not pretty sure as to how to approach on this...if any one has some expertise in the above sense of requirements - please help.