GCC handles the differences between Open Systems and CKD disk. Just like z/Linux looks like open system files.
On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 7:42 PM, Vince Coen <vbc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Did think of that but .. as GNU Cobol is written for Linux I think migrating > over to the mainframe will take a lot of knowledge I do not have, such as: > > 1. Dealing with the different way files are handled. > 2. Working out how to get the separate elements that make it up (along > with the different libraries to be added and linked together. > 3. any other things to get in the way. > > There must be a reason why no one has done it and I was not a Systems > Programmer but an application one using in Cobol sometimes in C, ADA, > Argol68R, Fortran, REXX and BAL and Macro Assembler - a very, very long time > ago ooh, yes nearly forgot RPG for migrating unit record equipment over to > the mainframe - in the 60's. Crap am I that old, nuts. > > Must have forgotten a few > > Vince > > > On 24/04/15 01:17, Mike Schwab wrote: >> >> GCC370 and GCC (380) are available to compile it. >> >> On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 7:11 PM, Vince Coen <vbc...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Exactly, although I run it on a AMD FX8350 along with a BBS, web and ftp >>> servers and other stuff including links to OS/390 and Z/OS when I am in >>> the >>> mood to see what more modern stuff is about/going. >>> >>> At least the later Cobol compilers tends to work a lot better than ANSI >>> Cobol which was always a dog at least on the site's I worked at so when >>> OS/VS Cobol came out it must have been the fastest migrations in history >>> :) >>> >>> Pity I can't find a more recent compiler to use under MVS Turnkey 4 Upd >>> 7. >>> >>> Now the next trick and no I don't know how is to migrate GNU Cobol v2.n >>> (was >>> Open Cobol) over to it which has a few functions over the current IBM >>> offerings. >>> >>> OK, may be not in my lifetime. >>> >>> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
