I doubt it will improve the maintainability. Many of those old programs were written to fit the IBM environment. Besides there was always a shortage of space an

I doubt it will improve the maintainability. Many of those old programs were written to fit the IBM environment. Besides there was always a shortage of space and memory that forced you to use certain programming techniques that would be totally useless in java. I would love to see it convert a Cobol/CICS program into a java program with a gui ;)