On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 7:42 PM, Vince Coen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Did think of that but .. as GNU Cobol is written for Linux I think > migrating over to the mainframe will take a lot of knowledge I do not have, > such as: > > 1. Dealing with the different way files are handled. > 2. Working out how to get the separate elements that make it up (along > with the different libraries to be added and linked together. > 3. any other things to get in the way. > > There must be a reason why no one has done it and I was not a Systems > Programmer but an application one using in Cobol sometimes in C, ADA, > Argol68R, Fortran, REXX and BAL and Macro Assembler - a very, very long > time ago ooh, yes nearly forgot RPG for migrating unit record equipment > over to the mainframe - in the 60's. Crap am I that old, nuts. > > Must have forgotten a few > > Vince If you just want to play around, you might find z390 interesting: http://www.z390.org/ This is a Java JVM based system which runs on Linux/ Mac/ Windows. It has a fairly up to date HLASM emulation (the assembler, macros) and a COBOL compiler which is generally compatible with IBM Enterprise COBOL. It may be a bit old, about 2013 and "functionally stabilized", but fairly nice. It has emulation for writing TSO type commands, CICS programs, and VSAM I/O. I wouldn't use it for doing a conversion, but for messing around it is decent. If you're really into it, it comes with the full source and is licensed (as best as I can tell) under GPL version 2. If you're not familiar with the GPL, it basically says you can do what you want with the code, but if you give it to someone else, you must give them the modified source if they ask for it. -- If you sent twitter messages while exploring, are you on a textpedition? He's about as useful as a wax frying pan. 10 to the 12th power microphones = 1 Megaphone Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
