OpenVMS Boot Camp 2015
 
Moving OpenVMS COBOL to ANSI COBOL

Track: Migration & Porting

Speaker
, CTO, Sector 7


Description
The OpenVMS COBOL compiler has become very lenient over the decades and has gained extensions that make it well imbedded in the OpenVMS world. It is easy to develop new applications and enhance existing ones using OVMS COBOL using these enhancements and not worrying too much about rules knowing that the OVMS COBOL compiler will fix up questionable code. The problem comes when it’s time to migrate these long-established applications to another platform where the available compilers literally choke on the COBOL code that compiles without errors on OVMS. We always thought that COBOL was COBOL, but the reality is very different. This presentation will examine some of the areas of concern when planning a migration and how to deal with them.

Experience Level
Intermediate