Assembler to Cobol Conversion tool.

milind suman · New User Joined: 19 Aug 2009 Posts: 55 Location: Pune

Doing Assembler to Cobol conversion Manualy?

I have a tool which converts Assembler to Cobol ..great accuracy and Maintanable code . Fast and easy . Message me 2 see the demo .

Bill O'Boyle · Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 10:04 pm

I'm assuming this is Batch? How are you converting ESDS direct READS by RBA to a COBOL equivalent?

AFAIK, COBOL does not support this type of access.

How do you convert an Assembler SHOWCB macro to a COBOL equivalent?

There is going to be Assembler functionality which can't be directly converted to COBOL.

Bill

PeterHolland · Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 10:13 pm

How will the following code look in Cobol :

MBabu · Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 10:27 pm

the probability of correctly converting macros, SVCs, I/O, EX instructions, ESTAEs, etc into usable COBOL is very low. I can imagine a simple line by line conversion, but that would just produce unreadable source and a load module that is ten+ times the size of the original. With a really powerful algorithm discovery engine I suppose this could be done, but I think people want to see samples.

PeterHolland · Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 10:46 pm

Its not possible. Maybe the TS is thinking about Cobol to Assembler.

milind suman · New User Joined: 19 Aug 2009 Posts: 55 Location: Pune

Peter ,

could u give me complete code.. WORKLNG, WORK,CLEAR etc are required to get logical conversion ..along with macro expansion ..I can try again .

Terry Heinze · Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 11:07 pm

PeterHolland · Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 3:07 am

milind suman

im not giving you the complete code, its just a snippet of one of my own assembler programs. As far as i see it you are fishing for some nice assembler coding so you can use it for yourself, or even sell it.

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 3:29 am

dick scherrer · Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 4:31 am

Hello,

Not so long ago (Sept 2009) you were asking how to convert Assembler to COBOL . . .

milind suman · New User Joined: 19 Aug 2009 Posts: 55 Location: Pune

Well ..it seems no body wants to believe

wud add something more ..as questioned by many of u ..this conversion tool is not meant to convert complex intricate systems macro ..rather it is suitable for migration of assembler system to cobol wherein application programs are very easily converted to cobol....Projects which are converting their business application frm assembler 2 cobol manualy can find this tool an incredible boost in time saving .

I will b glad 2 give the demo !

dick scherrer · Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2009 4:02 pm

To repeat what Enrico posted:

prgaj1 · Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 3:03 pm

did anyone ever see how "milind suman" converter work? we looking for something and not sure where to look got a book Assembler for COBOL programmers but a tool to help out would be making things much easier...

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 3:07 pm

we called the bluff and he chickened out

more reasonable to forget about it

PeterHolland · Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 3:12 pm

milind suman is an actor :
www.nowrunning.com/celebrity/370/milind-suman/index.htm

So probably he used it in a science fiction movie.

prgaj1 · Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 3:18 pm

Thanks ... will have to work it out ourselves then what just hoping that there was some tool... but what it to sometimes struggle make it so much more interesting

nigelosberry · New User Joined: 06 Jan 2009 Posts: 88 Location: Ggn, IN

Before applying any effort on making such a translator(i.e. asm->cobol) one will have to see if it is really worth it.

e.g. If somebody has only 50-100 odd programs to be converted then its not worth investing effort on a translator which will take many months for itself to be developed in the first place.

And accuracy is always going to be a concern...

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 2:29 pm

almost all prg-lang translators generate their own reference names,
which makes understanding the 'translated' code almost impossible.

milind suman · New User Joined: 19 Aug 2009 Posts: 55 Location: Pune

use one of this program from the tool on ur assembler pgm ..this itself will make ur assembler -> cobol at least >30% .

although this pgm is just the 1/100th of the entire tool.

nigelosberry · New User Joined: 06 Jan 2009 Posts: 88 Location: Ggn, IN

Well, this is quite a code. I am wondering if it is just 1/100th or so, how big the whole utility would be?

Anyways, from the first looks, it seems to be comparing the assembler source statements with predefined literals/constants in the program and substituting equivalent cobol code for that. I think this conversion can be done in a high level language like cobol far easily and with relatively less effort.

What about those functionalities which are specific to assembler e.g TR or translate instruction?

Cheers

nigelosberry · New User Joined: 06 Jan 2009 Posts: 88 Location: Ggn, IN

Ronald Burr · Posted: Sat May 21, 2011 2:49 am

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Sat May 21, 2011 2:56 am

if the people who wrote the program are happy we are happy ...

I would have taken a different approach
consolidate in one <buffer> the instruction/macro
parse the thing into the three components <label> <opcode> <operands>
the program would have been more readable and probably more compact

Richard Duggan · Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 11:28 pm

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@ Richard Duggan

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