I have given a lot of thought to such a product. I have experience with converting Assembler ADATA into a proprietary record layout schema.
If anyone has ideas on how to pursue this please contact me off-line. E-mail address should be above. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Clark Morris Sent: Monday, April 5, 2021 1:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Record description converter I would like to see a set of two way conversion tools that would convert COBOL copybooks to Assembler DSECTs and vice versa, SORT symbols to and from Assembler DSECTs, PL1 structures to and from Assembler DSECTs etc. If this were available it would be possible to convert COBOL record descriptions to their PL1 equivalent, Assembler DSECTs, SORT symbols, C Structures, etc. Data types not supported in a language would have comments (bits in COBOL for example). This would allow a shop to have a set of common descriptions across languages. I would have used this when I was working. Clark Morris ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
