What I've done in similar situations with macros in COBOLII from MPE is
to compile the original source on MPE, and then use the listfile as the
new source code for the HPUX AcuCobol or Micro focus. Then do some
cutting -n- pasting into new copy books (COPYLIB's) on the HPUX.

My preference however, is to use a combination of the native C compiler
on HPUX with Cobol-IT. Their is a free version of Cobol-IT (for Windows
and Unix) and also a Enterprise version, too many platforms to list. I
believe that Cobol-IT will be the path of least resistance for future
migrations. As a fork from OpenCobol, you can potentially put the
Cobol-IT/OpenCobol runtime libraries on any platform that supports the C
language.
--Mike.




On 08/18/2011 11:02 AM, Robert Mills wrote:
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> 2.5 years after my last employer went into administration I decided that semi-retirement was not for me. During that time I have been 'lurking' the list keeping up with what was going on. Even responded to some posts (directly to the senders) and posted comments to a couple of items on Ron's 3000 NewsWire.
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> Now for the main reason for this post<G>.
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> Like others who have moved from MPE to HPUX, I need to learn the differences between them. I used to have links to pages that documented this (also suggested what other things you needed to learn) but a lot of them point to non-existent pages/sites. Any pointers to good sources would be welcome.
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> The other problem I am having is with the COBOL we are running. It's Micro Focus COBOL for Unix V4.0 and it doesn't support macros which I used a LOT on MPE. Looking at the manual I see that it does have an Integrated Pre-processor Interface (IPI) that allows you to write a program that sits between the compiler and your source file(s). Your program is able to make changes to the will be invoked by the compiler when it needs to access the source file(s).
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> I have seen some links on the web that point to some documents on HP.com that refer to somebody who has done this but the links have not been updated since HP did their recent change.
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> Any information on adding macro's to MF COBOL using the IPI would be appreciated.
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