How is COBOL ReSource better than conversion to MicroFocus or ACUCOBOL?
Because COBOL ReSource is not conversion! That’s the whole point! To convert to a foreign dialect of COBOL you must convert your source code, almost always a one-way trip strewn with the pitfalls of lost functionality due to things that won’t convert. But when you move your application to COBOL ReSource your source code remains the same. To convert your VS application Procedures to a foreign system you may have to live with someone’s approximation of the Wang Procedure Interpreter or you may have to convert procedures to a completely different scripting language that knows nothing of Files, Libraries or Volumes and is unable to do PUTPARM/GETPARM or pass arguments to or from COBOL subprograms. But when you move your application to COBOL ReSource your VS Procedures remain the same and interact with other Procedures and with COBOL programs and subprograms exactly as they did on the VS. To convert your data files to work with a foreign dialect of COBOL you must deal with differences in pa
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