Re: Flowchart of Cobol code




"mehlREMOVETHIS@xxxxxxxxxx" <mehl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello --

We are a reporting group, assigned the task of duplicating (in SQL
Server 2005) queries embedded in Cobol source code modules. We are
not Cobol experts.

Can anyone recommend software which will generate flowcharts and
document the SQL from Cobol code modules?

I have downloaded a demo of allCLEAR 7.10; can't get it to work.

Thanks for any help or suggestions.

Larry Mehl

Is it that you can't get it to work, perhaps because it was
designed for Windows XP and you are not using XP?

Or, you can't get it to accept COBOL source code as
text, perhaps because it was not designed for that?

I am familiar with allCLEAR, having used Release 3.0
from 1993; though I have not used it for several years.
I even used it to create small flowcharts from COBOL
source code, by re-typing the code in a form acceptable
to allCLEAR; but I am not aware of any prior discussion
on this newgroup related to automating this.

Prior discussions of flowcharting software seem invariably
to revert to mainframe software from the 60s and 70s, when
flowcharts were not passé.

Some modern and very expensive COBOL development
environments may have some of what you are looking for;
but I am not aware of any inexpensive approach to
accomplish what you ask.


.



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