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jatinsaraf2501
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Hi,
We want to convert a couple of FORTRAN programs to Cobol. Can you please suggest ways to do that? I see that tools like Prism CS, Datatek can do that but is it possible without a tool? If not, any recommendations on a tool would be helpful.
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Robert Sample
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FORTRAN REAL variables become COBOL COMP-1, DOUBLE variables become COMP-2, CHARACTER variables become PIC X, and INTEGER variables become PIC S9(09) COMP-5. If you have other variable types, you'd have to look at what to convert them to in COBOL.
As long as you replicate the FORTRAN logic in the COBOL code, the conversion should be pretty straightforward. I've never done such a conversion with a tool, so I don't know anything about conversion tools. |
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jatinsaraf2501
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| Thanks. There are certain AFP calls in FORTRAN like AFPINIT. Do you know the equivalent cobol calls? |
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enrico-sorichetti
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| Since AFPINIT is an external subroutine/function You will have to ask Your peers about it, or read the application documentation. |
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Phrzby Phil
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You say 2 programs - how big?
If not too big, I would think a manual conversion would be easier/safer/quicker/cheaper/morefun than finding a tool.
If you do not know both languages, it would not be hard to find someone who does, but don't wait much more than 10 years. |
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don.leahy
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| Phrzby Phil wrote: |
If you do not know both languages, it would not be hard to find someone who does, but don't wait much more than 10 years. |
Not so sure about that. My 26 year old son, in the course of his Engineering studies, had to learn enough Fortran to understand how to use a large library of pre-existing functions. To help him, I dug up one of the textbooks that *I* used in university back in the 1970s. |
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