Convert COBOL-Structures to PLI

[schmetterling]

Dear Forum,

we work with cobol and pli.
I want to convert the cobol-structures to pli.

Thanks a lot in advance !!

Eva

 

[3gm]

Last time I looked, PL/1 supported structures very similar ot COBOL Groups/Records. What specifically did you need to know?

Regards.

Glenn

 

[schmetterling]

Hi Glenn,

i mean a translation from the cobol-structure to a pli-structure so that the comments (in cobol a '*' in column 7) are converted to pli (in pli /* for the begin, */ for the end of the comment).

In additional all the data-types should be converted (cobol: Pic S9(3)V99 comp-3 to pli: Dec.....).

Best regards !!

Eva

 

[3gm]

Eva -

I don't have anything handy to do that. Sounds like you need a little parser utility. Perhaps someone else on the list can assist?

Glenn

 

[webrabbit]

A caveat! A PL/I structure assingment is not the same as a COBOL group move. A PL/I structure assignment is equivalent to an assignment of the individual fields.

For example, MOVE "A" TO GROUP-X results in GROUP-X containing an "A" in the first byte and spaces in all the other bytes, regardless of the definition of the elementary fields withing GROUP-X.

In PL/I, STRUCTURE-X = "A" results in each elementary field within STRUCTURE-X containing an "A" followed by spaces. Also, the compiler should mark this statement as an error if any of the elementary fields are not alphameric.