Introduction

As I have recently written (November 2007, Building an Early Warning System to Enable COBOL Compiler Migration), there are sites that will be compelled to migrate older COBOL programs to Enterprise COBOL simply because they must run the latest version of DB2 and CICS. If that’s the case at your site, what have you done to help get the applications programming staff ready to do the work? I was presented with this challenge at a client site and decided to follow a standard project approach:  read more »

To mark my sixth anniversary of writing for NaSPA, I decided to revisit my first article and revamp it for a new audience. This article examines how one site incorporated one of the features of their change management system with the features of their dump analysis tool to help applications programmers determine the cause of development and production abends.  read more »

COBOL source code migration is inevitable. In the near future, whether your site has VS COBOL II programs or still has OS/VS COBOL programs, if you change your source code during maintenance, you must migrate the compiler to Enterprise COBOL.  read more »