Question 7

I have heard that migrating my COBOL applications from using the VS COBOL II run-time library to Language Environment is transparent to the users. Is this true?

Answer

In some cases, yes. In other cases, definitely not. A few customers have simply replaced the VS COBOL II library dataset name (COB2LIB) in LNKLST with the Language Environment dataset name (SCEERUN), and all was well. Other customers have had many problems, mostly caused by poor planning. Most problems can be avoided by education on migration issues. This information is available in the COBOL Migration Guide (GC27-1409) or by attending a COBOL Migration presentation at SHARE.