Micro Focus and PL/I

[Bill Klein]

It isn't totally new, but I don't think I have seen anything in this group
about the new PL/I stuff from Micro Focus.

See for example,
http://www.microfocus.com/AboutMicroFocus/pressroom/releases/pr20111128222562.asp

and

http://www.microfocus.com/plus/pli/index.aspx

I have no experience with this and can't speak to what it can and cannot do,
nor what their kpricing is like

[Jessica Colman]

I stumbled over this stuff too. Micro focus provides two architectures.
Basically they move all the sourcecode and all the data to a Microsoft
environment. They recompile the code with a cross-compiler using
Microsoft Visual Studio as the IDE. The data is stored on SQL Server.

I consider the approach using Microsoft Team Foundation Server as the
source code repository and MS Team Foundation Build as build engine
highly interesting. I worked with both of them and was amazed how easy
they are to use.

To move all the mainframe data (PS- and PDS(E)-files, VSAM etc.) to SQL
Server sounds not so good to me. I cannot imagine that this works.

Jessica