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ofer71 · Last edited by ofer71 on Sat Feb 05, 2011 11:55 am; edited 1 time in total

Hi all ?

One of my missions at the moment is to evaluate tools for an automatic conversion of CA-Easytrieve to COBOL.

I spent the last week searching the internet for such tools providers, and compiled the following list:
? CONVTEK
? PENGI
? IBA-Gomel
? MigrationWare
? KTA Corporation
? Belcastro Computer Services (BCS)

In addition to the actual tool examination, I'll be happy to hear if anyone has a real experience with any or the above providers, or if there are others that I missed.

Thanks in Advance ?

O.
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dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 9:14 am Post subject:

I have no experience with the eztrieve conversion products; only negative experience I have had with conversion tools is that references generated for data elements and procedure/paragraph names are not always 'meaningful' names. (e.g. WORK-1, WORK-2, etc...)
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kolusu · Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 12:00 pm Post subject:

ofer71,

I haven't worked on the conversion. But I would preferably go with an IBM tool. how about this one ?

http://www-306.ibm.com/common/ssi/fcgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=AN&subtype=CA&htmlfid=897/ENUS206-032&appname=USN

http://www-306.ibm.com/software/support/rss/other/613.xml?rss=s613&ca=rssother

Hope this helps...

Cheers

Kolusu
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naveen · Beginner Joined: 03 Dec 2002 Posts: 90 Topics: 31

I've done a small project on EZT to COBOL conversion. There were only 35 EZT source members and were converted to total of 13 Cobol programs. Since it was a small set of EZT programs, we have done the conversion manually. Time spent was also not too much.

Couple of highly visible advantages were:
1. In actual production cycle for around 2 Mn records , 7 CPU minutes were reduced to 3 CPU minutes in processing. A lot of cost was saved as production cycles ran daily.

2. We saved some Dollar amount on DASD.

3. We ulitmatley got rid off EZt from our installation.

4. Maintainablity was much better in COBOL programs.

ofer71 · Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 12:53 am Post subject:

Kolusu -

Thanks for your input. The reason why IBM's tool is not on my list is because they are using PENGI.

naveen -

Thanks for your reply. We have around 5,000 EZT programs, so manual conversion is not even considered.

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