Take inventory

Take an inventory of the applications, vendor products, and tools you intend to run with Language Environment. Understand what version and release of which compiler generated the program and which run-time options were used and how they were specified. The Edge Portfolio Analyzer can help you do this. The Edge Portfolio Analyzer is a migration tool that analyzes existing application load libraries and provides information including which release of a compiler, which compiler and which linkage editor options were used to produce it. It also generates JCL which you can use to re-link to the Language Environment run-time library.

If you find that you are missing some of your source libraries, Essential Systems Technical Consulting can help you. They provide a service to recover your source code from the load modules.

Check to see if the vendor products you are using support Language Environment. Language Environment-Enabled Vendor Tools and Application Packages: A Working Document contains a list of IBM and non-IBM products and lists whether or not each product is Language Environment enabled.

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