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> Part of the motivation for this recent effort for a COBOL compiler front-end for GCC has been to help migrate traditional mainframe applications over to Linux
by le-mark 2y ago
> Part of the motivation for this recent effort for a COBOL compiler front-end for GCC has been to help migrate traditional mainframe applications over to Linux for local use and in the cloud.
A unixy cobol isn’t what anyone needs for mainframe migrations. There’s a lot of weirdness around calling and linking “load modules” in mainframe environments, and calling programs via jcl (passing in file handles). Plus Will CICS support be coming? Maybe someone more knowledgeable can comment on these thing?
- hagbard_c 2y agoIf you want a mainframy COBOL there is Hercules to play with so that need is covered already: https://herculesmainframeemulator.weebly.com/add-and-compile-cobolnbspnbsp.html https://herculesmainframeemulator.weebly.com/add-and-compile... (just the first hit on the query hercules mainframe cobol, there's plenty more where that came from)