MF COBOL - Is it hard to learn?
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From: hp3kpro on 22 Jan 2008 10:27 I am an experienced COBOL programmer (HP3000)-26 years. How different is "regular" COBOL from MF COBOL? Thanks. Brian
From: Alistair on 22 Jan 2008 15:02 On 22 Jan, 15:27, hp3kpro <BJ...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > I am an experienced COBOL programmer (HP3000)-26 years. > How different is "regular" COBOL from MF COBOL? > > Thanks. > Brian I've done the usual mainframe stuff and find that the language is much the same as mainframe cobol. No surprise. I find that the IDE is pretty easy to pickup (just go through the tutorials and then get on with it). However, Net Express v5 Personal Edition is either bug- ridden or (with the compiler options that it defaults to) much more fussy than Fujitsu v3. As for online gui cobol others will be able to answer that.
From: William M. Klein on 22 Jan 2008 18:23 You question is a little confusing to me. First, when you say "MF COBOL" - do you mean "Micro Focus COBOL" or do you mean "Mainframe COBOL"? The same term is often used for either. My best guess is that you mean "Micro Focus COBOL - on HP3000, but I could be mistaken. Now, the next question is what do you mean by "regular" COBOL? In other words, what two environments are you really trying to compare. Without the answers to this, getting a useful response will be pretty difficult. However, IN GENERAL, going from one vendor's COBOL to another's - even on different platforms isn't TOO difficult. However, it is usually the "environment" that presents the challenges: - what development tools and environment is there? (particularly interactive debugging and source code editing) - what "screen" systems are in use? - what databases are in use? - what JCL, scripting, other "external procedure language" is in use? I don't know if this helps, but if you give us more details on your question, we might be able to help more. -- Bill Klein wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com "hp3kpro" <BJLPA(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:3f458843-2b2f-4226-81e7-178e2d6b3d6a(a)s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com... >I am an experienced COBOL programmer (HP3000)-26 years. > How different is "regular" COBOL from MF COBOL? > > Thanks. > Brian
From: Vince Coen on 22 Jan 2008 11:28 Hello hp3kpro! 22 Jan 08 15:27, hp3kpro wrote to All: hk> I am an experienced COBOL programmer (HP3000)-26 years. hk> How different is "regular" COBOL from MF COBOL? Many elements are similar to IBM m/f Cobol. Vince
From: hp3kpro on 23 Jan 2008 07:47
You're correct -my question was a bit confusing. I am indeed referring to MicroFocus COBOL which seems to require using a certain menu driven tool as opposed to "regular" COBOL simply created in a line editor. Thanks. On Jan 22, 6:23 pm, "William M. Klein" <wmkl...(a)nospam.netcom.com> wrote: > You question is a little confusing to me. First, when you say "MF COBOL" - do > you mean "Micro Focus COBOL" or do you mean "Mainframe COBOL"? The same term is > often used for either. My best guess is that you mean "Micro Focus COBOL - on > HP3000, but I could be mistaken. > > Now, the next question is what do you mean by "regular" COBOL? In other words, > what two environments are you really trying to compare. > > Without the answers to this, getting a useful response will be pretty difficult. > However, IN GENERAL, going from one vendor's COBOL to another's - even on > different platforms isn't TOO difficult. However, it is usually the > "environment" that presents the challenges: > - what development tools and environment is there? (particularly interactive > debugging and source code editing) > - what "screen" systems are in use? > - what databases are in use? > - what JCL, scripting, other "external procedure language" is in use? > > I don't know if this helps, but if you give us more details on your question, we > might be able to help more. > > -- > Bill Klein > wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com"hp3kpro" <BJ...(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message > > news:3f458843-2b2f-4226-81e7-178e2d6b3d6a(a)s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com... > > > > >I am an experienced COBOL programmer (HP3000)-26 years. > > How different is "regular" COBOL from MF COBOL? > > > Thanks. > > Brian- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - |