cobol

I´m still trying to eleminate the need of a cobol compiler in a Project with cobol-Projects in it. Is it possible to create following build behaviour: If the Configuration is Debug then use ProjectReferences on ExCobol.cblproj if the Configuration is DebugVB then use FileReferences on ExCobol.dll When Yes, How to achieve it? I assume the use of tags in the project file will do the trick. And does this really eliminate the need of a cobol compiler for the DebugVB Configuration? Regarding the conditional 'how', assuming you have either <ProjectReference ...>...</ProjectReference> or <Reference .

I am working with some old data imports and came across a bunch of data from an external source that reports financial numbers with a signed overpunch . I've seen alot, but this is before my time. Before I go about creating a function to parse these strangers, I wanted to check to see if there was a standard way to handle these. I guess my question is, does the .Net framework provide a standard facility for converting signed overpunch strings? If not .NET, are there any third party tools I can use so I don't reinvent the wheel? Over-punched numeric ( Zoned-Decimal in Cobol) comes from the old

I’m currently on the task of writing a c# application, which is going sit between two existing apps. All I know about the second application is that it processes files generated by the first one. The first application is written in Cobol. Steps: 1) Cobol application, writes some files and copies to a directory. 2) The second application picks these files up and processes them. My C# app would sit between 1) an 2). It would have to pick up the file generated by 1), read it, modify it and save it, so that application 2) wouldn’t know I have even been there. I have a few problems. First of all if

I am looking for a static analysis tool for Python, Ruby, Sql, Cobol, Perl, PL/SQL, SQL similar to find bugs and check style. I am looking for calculating the line count, identify bugs during the development, and enforcing coding standard. Perl has Perl::Critic (and perlcritic.com ) I use PyChecker and pylint as Python code checkers. However it seems that they get buggy when you use some modules (e.g., socket or pygame , IIRC). Mike Woodhouse For Ruby, you're probably best served looking at this previous SO question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/286564/can-anyone-recommend-a-ruby-source

My department is currently faced with the responsibility for the task of maintaining a rather large COBOL code base. We are wondering how to add new features to keep up with business needs. COBOL programmers are hard to come by these days, and we also think we would get higher productivity from using a more modern language like Java or C#. We feel that we have four options: Rewrite everything from scratch, leaving the old application to itself until it is ready to be replaced Rewrite everything from scratch, getting some people to maintain the old application to cope with new business needs as

I would like to invoke a cobol program thru shell script by assigning command line prompt values in the "EOD" as below. #!/bin/bash run pub/coblprog<<:EOD: 1 2 3 :EOD: Consider if COBOL program "coblprog" has 4 command line prompts and expects 4 input command line arguments at runtime. I have specified 3 prompt values in the EOD. Since COBOL has four prompts but at EOD does passing 3 values , COBOL program is going into infinity loop to expecting the fourth prompt value. My requirement is, I would like to set an shell's control break statement (like below) after all prompt values before second