Notes on code conversion / porting.

Recently the author had the opportunity to be involved in some COBOL/2 code conversion work.  Here were my rough notes as I wrote them.
 

ToDo (or suggested ideas)
Copybook, where possible, ALL common code.  ie. SELECTs, FDs, Working Storage, Common I-O Operations, ANY system call routines.

Check code for reserved words that have been used as variable names (ie. LINE-COUNT, TALLYING).  This is due to later implementations of NetXpress/Acucobol.

Ensure ALL code to be converted is


If you don't want to do the conversion yourself, I would suggest contacting either of these companies:
Group 3 Developments - Provides Cobol/C/Pascal application conversion
http://www.home.aone.net.au/group3developments/
email: g3@c031.aone.net.au

or

SOFIA (application/source code)
http://www.sofianet.com/
 

Disclaimer
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Dale 'Cat' Robinson - catfromdarwin@oocities.com
7 August 1999

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