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At 12:57 PM 5/30/2002, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>In addition to those suggestions already made, I will suggest that you make
>your target implementation ANSI 85 COBOL, with the 1989 intrinsics, but with
>no platform-specific extensions. The greatest obstacle to overcome is that
>this is nearly impossible. At the very least, you are probably going to read
>and write files and DBMS. And file systems tend toward the
>platform-specific, and DBMSs tend toward the DBMS specific. That said, these
>can be isolated into libraries of copybooks. So can other platform specific
>artifacts, such as reading and setting environment variables, or reading in
>command line parms.
>
>This approach limits your challenge to cross-referencing HP COBOL to those
>things which should work on any target platform for which there is an ANSI
>85 COBOL compiler. So, always compile with whatever directive flags these,
>so someone can audit the code for compliance to your standards.
>
>Now, should you already know your target platform, and have a vendor in mind
>for the compiler & IDE, that vendor may have a source code tool which will
>help find and change all occurrences of a given (presumably platform
>specific) extension or intrinsic.
>
>Greg Stigers
>http://www.cgiusa.com
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David T Darnell [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 1:20 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: COBOL MPE to ??? language syntax and feature comparison.
> >
> >
> > Where can I find a cross-reference between HP's COBOL
> > languages and COBOL
> > compilers available on Unixen, to determine which HP COBOL features,
> > keywords, etc. must be changed?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Dave
>
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