A google-translate of part of the final article in French from the media section of the LzLabs website.
"Lzlabs technology leans on a container system which embeds the mainframe application and data. The application and its lines of code are included and the native format of the original data is kept - all without recompilation. "The only thing we are changing is the APIs. We take the old APIs, and replace them with ours, "said Thilo Rockmann." They have a little video which shows the running of the NIST compiler-validation suite, compiled on a Mainframe, and run in their container. With 260 JCL steps (they proudly point out that this is more steps than the Mainframe supports...). The NIST suite is doing nothing fancy, it is for validating COBOL compilers to the 1985 Standard. Running the compiled code would show that all COBOL statements work. "we take the old APIs, and replace them" in this case seems to mean "taking the COBOL runtime (Language Environment) and replacing its functionality". In the video there is a brief simple mention of "ported" without explanation. This could mean, effectively, a "relink" as suggested earlier in this thread. There is a mention of COBOL-IT in the French article for programs which do need to be recompiled. Raincode has experience, and tools, although directed at .Net, but including an alleged DFSORT-compatible product. On Friday, 18 March 2016 09:59:47 UTC, R.S. wrote: > IMHO they don't run compiled code. They recompile source code. > Clue: Raincode is their technology partner. Raincode makes COBOL compiler. > > -- > Radoslaw Skorupka > Lodz, Poland ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
