I am thinking, is there a software on the PC with it I can compile my cobol programs? Then I will be getting good compile in one go when I am back on the mainframes. Does anyone know a software?
Moved: Tue May 27, 2008 8:46 pm by mcmillan From Mainframe COBOL to PC Tech Help & IT News
dick scherrer
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Hello,
Most organizations do not want their source code scattered all over. Unless your source management provides for check-out to some external environment, doing this is not a good idea. If you try to do this "on your own", you will find it rather inconvenient to continuously transfer a program back and forth to simply avoid an extra compile or 2 on the mainframe.
Far more code changes are due to getting code to work correctly after the first clean compile than getting thru the initial compile successfully.
Having said that, you might search the web for an "open source" cobol compiler that you could download for free.
Moved: Tue May 27, 2008 8:46 pm by mcmillan From Mainframe COBOL to PC Tech Help & IT News