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Ancient Dragon · Jul 18th, 2008, 5:35 PM

Is it possible to call c++ functions from cobol? If yes, then maybe one possible solution is to write the network related code in c++ and leave the rest of cobol alone.

Jabo · Jul 18th, 2008, 11:51 PM

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1. How big/complex are the programs? The bigger more complex, the more of a job it's going to be to convert them to another language, and the more likely you'll introduce unintended bugs

The one he's shown me doesn't seem to be very big but it does have some...what I call structs since it's like structs in C++. Basically collections of variables. I don't remember if they're the same variable type, but it didn't have an index that I could tell; he called them levels.

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2. What platform is it running on, mainframes are almost the exclusive domain of cobol, while I've rarely seen cobol run on mid-range or PC.

W2k3 or W2K mostly. One program is running on WXP. No *nix as of yet, but we do have *nix systems.

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3. How significant are future changes going to be? if it's minor bug fixing here and there, it's far easier to leave the program that's working where it is, if it's major changes.revisions maybe it's time to document what it does and move it to some other language.

Good question. It deals with medical information, so how much will medical data change in the future.

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Originally Posted by Ancient Dragon

Is it possible to call c++ functions from cobol? If yes, then maybe one possible solution is to write the network related code in c++ and leave the rest of cobol alone.

I'd rather not cross-pollenate until I'm more comfortable with the language.

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