Visual Age Generator for COBOL/CICS

[Ethan Schultz]

Hi,

I have a client who uses IBM's Visual Age to generate COBOL CICS
applications that run on VSE. They'd like to move off of VSE and
onto Windows using a 3rd party CICS, but still use Visual Age.

Does anyone know, is it possible to replace the mainframe CICS and
Visual Age runtimes with Windows based Visual Age runtimes and a
3rd party CICS like MicroFocus Mainframe Express ?

Thanks in advance,

Ethan Schultz
Rosebud Management Systems, LLC
http://www.RosebudUSA.com

[lsu...@mb.sympatico.ca]

On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 20:51:39 UTC, Ethan Schultz
<eth...@RosebudUSA.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a client who uses IBM's Visual Age to generate COBOL CICS
> applications that run on VSE. They'd like to move off of VSE and
> onto Windows using a 3rd party CICS, but still use Visual Age.
>
> Does anyone know, is it possible to replace the mainframe CICS and
> Visual Age runtimes with Windows based Visual Age runtimes and a
> 3rd party CICS like MicroFocus Mainframe Express ?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>

IBM used to ship a version of CICS for OS/2 and Windows with the v2.2
Enterprise compiler.

I just went and checked the box for IBM COBOL version 3 for NT and it
has a CD with CICS v3 for Windows as well.

--
Lorne Sunley

[Editor]

Ethan,
The Progeni Corporation has several products that might help. While they
don't have a direct CICS emulator or replacement, they do have automated
migration processes that can move that code to a functionally equivalent
environment. And they have a COBOL generator that can keep your application
platform independent.
Their web site is at www.progeni.com and you can contact them at
sa...@progeni.com.

--
Buddy Ray
Editor
About Legacy Coding
www.aboutlegacycoding.com

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