Re: Upgrade path from IBM's VisualAge Cobol (was withdrawn)

I (personally) know of no "reasonably priced" solution to what you want to do.

1) IBM - the current product offering is Websphere Developer for System Z. See:
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/devzseries/
That product includes COBOL *and* PL/I (and CICS with "add-ons" - I think for
DB2 and IMS)

2) Micro Focus Mainframe Express - Enterprise Edition (MFEEE). See:
http://www.microfocus.com/products/mfeee/

3) I think that both CA (Computer Associates) and Fujitsu also offer product in
this area.

As far as I know, *ALL* of these products are closer to $10,000 than they are to
$1,000. (Although some MAY still have $3,000 versions).

The bottom-line is that (currently) development of (IBM) mainframe COBOL
applications on a Windows platform is EXPENSIVE.

I do, however, think that there ARE people who have gotten the "old" VisualAge
COBOL product to work under XP. I just am not certain how.

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Bill Klein
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"Graham Hobbs" <ghobbs@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello

My third post in four days - is all so exciting and most useful.

Am developing a mainframe software package but I cannot make my 1998
Visualage Cobol V2.2 work on my new XP Pro laptop so am trying to find
out what other people in my situation have done.

The Cobol has to support:

a) CICS commands (my IBM CICS for Windows V3.1 seems to work OK on the
new machine)

b) DB2 'Exec SQL' commands (I have the new DB2 Express-C V9.1),

c) the seeming current VSAM KSDS emulator bTrieve commands (read,
write, etc)(seems this is still the way VSAM KSDS is emulated even
today).

Elementary answers I came up with were:

a) Contact IBM: I did; dreadful experience; after two hours of
transfers, redials, new numbers, one person asked me how to spell
'cobol':-(
b) Try Microfocus (after I hear comments of this group).

Cost is an issue (since I'm retired). So I might as well mention that
whatever Cobol solution arrives, I'm gigantically hoping that my old
CICS will work with the Cobol/CICS .exe programs. Hate to think what
a PC CICS would cost...

Any advice very welcome, please, thanks.

Graham Hobbs


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