Is anyone aware of a tool that would create a cross reference list from a COBOL copylib to its matching IMAGE data item?
We have the need to spec out several COBOL programs and during this reverse engineering step we've natrually encounterd a time consuming requirement of creating a cross reference list of used copylib field names within each program against its matching - and usually different named datset "item" name.
When the actual new databases are created in another system, perhaps SQL, the database and dataset/table names will be the same and in order for the non COBOL developer in the desitnation system to understand formulas he/she needs to see the dataset/item - AKA table/column name - they have no knowledge of copylib field names.
For instance IMAGE says...
LOCATION-MSTR,MANUAL
ITEMS:
ACCOUNT-SIGNON, X8 <<KEY ITEM>>
LOCATION, X2
GROUP, X2
NAME-LOC-SHORT, X16
NAME-LOCATION, X30
ADDRESS-LINE1, X30
ADDRESS-LINE2, X30
CITY, X16
However in the COBOL application we refer to CITY as LOCM-CITY (copylib name).
While creating the new spec we must refer to CITY as the field to use; not LOCM-CITY.
It might be reaching.....but thought I'd ask if anyone knows how to reduce this pain.
Thank you very much for your time.
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