Unisys to Cobol II conversion 1

[Akri]

Hi all,
I am working in the Mainframe enviornment and currently starting a Unisys Cobol to Cobol II Conversion project . Could you please help me in finding out the differences between these two languages , If you have any earlier exp. in similar projects .
Or If you know any resources available in the Net pl send it

Thanks
Anand

 

[slade]

Hi Anand,

I have no direct help to give you, but you might try your friendly IBM rep; he should be happy to assist. IBM may even have a "red book" or white paper to help you. Could also try mvshelp.com or newsranger.com for help.

One other thing; why COBOLII? The LE versions are the latest. I think IBM have announced it dropped support for COBOLII. If you're going to go thru the pain of a converion, you might only want to do it once.

Hope this helps some, Jack.

 

[KidHoss]

I've had about 15 years experience with Unisys COBOL in various formats. If you have some questions regarding how it works or problems you encounter, you could contact me.

 

[StephenJSpiro]

I've done several COBOL-to-COBOL conversions, including IBM to Burroughs (I think Burroughs is now Unisys-B). I'm available for a contract! *S*
Offhand, I could not point you at the appropriate manuals. What I do, is get the manuals for both versions and go from there. In all conversions, the real expertise should be in what you are converting TO. That person will recognize the inconsistencies in what you are converting FROM.
Slade is right; IBM discontinued support for COBOL II a few months ago. Go directly to COBOL/390.

Stephen J Spiro
Member, J4 COBOL Standards Committee
stephenjspiro at hotmail.com

 

[Akri]

Hi

Thanks for the responses so far ..

As many suggested we are considering the migration to IBM S390 COBOL from Unisys A Series COBOL ratherthan COBOL II.

In Unisys I have seen many Intrinsic Calls ,

Example : CALL "INTRINSIC xxxx"

Whats this , Is it Normal sub program calls . How sub program calls are different in Unisys environment .

Can any of Unisys Experts Help ??

Thanks
Anand

 

[StephenJSpiro]

Suggest you post this question in comp.lang.cobol. Chuck Stevens, who writes at least one of the Unisys compilers, monitors that group, and is very helpful. Incidentally, are you using Unisys-A or Unisys-B?

Stephen J Spiro

 

[BettyScherber]

Intrinsic CALLs are calls to various operating systems functions and are available in many different implementations with similar syntax. (Besides the Unisys, HP comes to mind immediately.) In any case, since the intrinsic call is doing some operating system function, you will have to evaluate on a case by case basis what that function is doing. The function may or may not be available from within some other COBOL. If it is available, you might be able to right a subroutine to mimic the intrinsic routine's behavior on the new machine, even calling it the same name as the intrinsic, thus streamlining the conversion process.

Hope this helps, Betty Scherber
Brainbench MVP for COBOL II

http://www.brainbench.com

 

[Crox]

Hi,

automatic conversions are done by Cornerstone:

http://www.cornerstone.nl

Regards,

Crox

 

[CodeSlug]

Akri,
This might be of some use to you.....

http://public.support.unisys.com/os1/txt/web-verity?type=list

it should give you more information about specific system intrinsics.

CS
P.S. Although I can't understand why you would want to move off the A-Series platform ??