On Monday 05 May 2014 10:49:22 Neale Ferguson wrote:
> I saw the following on a LinkedIn group:
>
> "Customers who are proposed to migrate from zOS to zLinux may have a
> concern about the presence of cobol programs. Porting the cobol code to a
> different language not only may affect the migration costs, but it also may
> be painful if not even unsuccessful. So, a cobol compiler for zLinux may be
> picked from the market, but again, this may heavily affect the project
> costs. The adoption of the OpenCobol compiler might be a fine option. The
> OpenCobol compiler is an open source project whose site is
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/open-cobol/";
>
> I created a s390x and src RPM for it based on the latest tarball. They are
> available at http://download.sinenomine.net/opencobol/
>
> I've run the test suite and it passes but haven't tried any code of my own
> (not being a prolific COBOL programmer).
>
> Neale
Be advised that OpenCOBOL is now part of the GCC project
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/open-cobol/> :
Description
GNU Cobol (formerly OpenCOBOL) is a free COBOL compiler. cobc translates COBOL
to executable using intermediate C sources, providing full access to nearly
all C libraries.
OpenCOBOL 1.1 has been uploaded, with full support for SCREEN SECTION.
GNU Cobol 1.1 co-posted to ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnucobol (is available here,
too)
A superb manual by Gary Cutler can be found at
http://opencobol.add1tocobol.com/OpenCOBOL%20Programmers%20Guide.pdf
FAQ and How-To at http://opencobol.add1tocobol.com/
OpenCOBOL is
Copyright (C) 2001-2009 Keisuke Nishida
Copyright (C) 2007-2012 Roger While
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.
Leslie
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