This is kind of my thinking too. I would think that you could just boil down the requirements for what the system needs to do and just build that rather than bo

This is kind of my thinking too. I would think that you could just boil down the requirements for what the system needs to do and just build that rather than bothering to wade through the COBOL and translating it. I would also think the resulting code would be far smaller than the legacy COBOL, probably by an order of magnitude or more.