[martyheyman]

Mainframe COBOL to POSIX native machine language or Java is largely a solved problem. 40 year old code that hasn't been touched in 30 years "ain't broke" and likely doesn't need fixing IMHO. Our take is get it to POSIX/Java so you can sort out all the OTHER STUFF and then rewrite/re-architect at your leisure. {disclosure: we're the GCC COBOL team}.

[teruakohatu]

> The challenge is the institutional knowledge that never made it into code or documentation and has walked out the door.

This is a problem a compiler cannot fix, and is a very real problem.

[crackez]

What about CICS? What about JES?