Clark:
Have you looked at Dignus (http://www.dignus.com/) ?
It really makes things much easier.
Harry
P.S. I use Dignus for my mainframe C/C++ work, but have no affiliation with
them.
> Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 10:05:26 -0400
> From: [email protected]
> Subject: Converting SAS C to IBM C
> To: [email protected]
>
> I apologize in advance if...
>
>
> 1) This has already been discussed (I did not find it in the archives)
>
> 2) This is not the proper forum for this question (but IBM-Main is always a
> good place to start)
>
> We have a number of C programs that need to be converted from SAS to IBM. The
> reason for this is because SAS has decided to drop support for their C/C++
> compiler, so we need to get our code onto a supported platform. When these
> programs were written (10+ years ago), the SAS compiler was the best one
> available. Now the IBM compiler has caught up, and may be even better. But it
> still does not make the conversion any easier. Some of this code is pretty
> complex, as it makes use of MVS facilities like WAIT and POST, plus much of
> the code jumps back and forth between C and assembler language.
>
> If any of you have been down this road before, could you please point me to
> some useful resources? There are plenty of IBM manuals, but I was looking for
> something more like a porting guide specifically for those traveling this
> path - something that addresses a specific SAS C extension, and describes how
> to do the same thing in IBM C. Also, my C coding skills are a bit rusty, and
> I would appreciate a forum or mailing list that provides help day-to-day
> coding questions, specifically related to the IBM compiler.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Clark
>
>
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