Re: Stategy for (Large?) 16bit COBOL code conversion to Net Express

I've done Microfocus Cobol conversion and I knew certain issues.

To top it all, you have to focus mainly on "DataFile Conversion" from
16bit to 32bit. 16bit generated Cobol files ARE NOT compatible with
your NetExpress V5.00. So what you'll going to do is basically (a)
create a program based on your 16bit Cobol compiler and read ALL Cobol
datafiles into a flatfile and (b) create a program based on your
NetExpress V5.00 or 32bit Cobol compiler and read the flatfiles back/
write this time to 32bit datafiles.

As long as you have your file structure (or COPY files) intact, then
it will be no problem in data conversion. Concerning Cobol program
codes, nothing much is changed. Once your data conversion is done, you
could play with it using your "new" compiled 32bit Cobol programs. You
would probably need some compiler directives but for sure it would
only consist of at least 10% of the Cobol code change workload.

90% goes to DataFile Conversions.

Best of luck!

Rene

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