vs cobol to cscobol II conversion

rajeshwarch · New User Joined: 24 Mar 2008 Posts: 29 Location: mumbai

Hi everybody,
Iam currently working on cobol to cobolII conversion. Iam not sure that, which areas i need to concentrate. can anybody guide me for the same.

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 12:57 pm

since IBM is discontinuing support for COBOL II, I would suggest migrating straight to e-cobol.

regardless, I would refer to the release documents for COBOL II, which will guide you.

acrajesh · New User Joined: 31 May 2007 Posts: 15 Location: Bangalore

Dear Rajesh,

If am right, there are more than 150+ differences between COBOL and COBOL II. But for the usage purpose, the impact would be on maximum 10 commands. I had worked on a similar project a year back though I forgot the basic differences that needs to be streamlined.

For example,
1.EXAMINE should be replaced with INSPECT
2. CURRENT-DAY, TIME-OF-DAY replaced by DATE, TIME which are dynamic calls made by the COBOL II compiler
3. removal of REMARKS

You can find many websites which can guide you through.

Regards,

AC

rajeshwarch · New User Joined: 24 Mar 2008 Posts: 29 Location: mumbai

Thanks Rajesh, can u suggest me some good websites for the same.

cchidhu · New User Joined: 18 Aug 2007 Posts: 4 Location: India

Same job we did!!! We have compiled the VS-COBOl program with new e-cobol compiler and we tested the same! If you want to reference what are all the impact will come during conversion just refer IBM Migration guide!!!!!!