Goal

This project aims at developing a utility to translate PL/I structures to COBOL structures.

Many mainframe integration tools have parsers for COBOL data structures. There is less support for PL/I, another important mainframe language.

By converting PL/I structures to COBOL, it becomes possible to integrate PL/I programs using tools which only support COBOL.

Get started

To get started, download and unzip the distribution file. The readme.txt file contains instructions on how to run the sample provided.

Checkout the wiki and maven site for additional documentation.

How it works

The PL/I structure parser implementation is based on ANTLR, a great lexer/parser.

The product is written in java. You can:

• call the API directly from your code

• use run.sh/run.bat command files to call a standalone executable jar

• use a build.xml Apache ANT script.

Status

| Oct 19, 2009 | New release 0.0.5 Delivers a standalone executable jar as an alternative to ant.| |:-------------|:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|

List of Fixed issues so far.

This is work in progress and all contributions are very welcome. Please join us on the Google group.