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Steven

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How to reverse engineer Cobol
« on: April 17, 2012, 04:32:34 pm »
Yes, there are people that would like to replace Cobol. So I am not looking into generating Cobol code but I am looking into the possibilies to reverse engineer some Cobol code.
Is there an option/possiblity to import Cobol code and get an model look at the Cobol code?
It might not cover 100% but every percentage helps compared to the manual labour.

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Re: How to reverse engineer Cobol
« Reply #1 on: April 17, 2012, 07:38:26 pm »
No way. Although you can program COBOL in OO style this is a completely manual process. If you know that style you can parse the includes and create classes with attributes and methods for each. However, this task will be yours. And it will likely be a mixture of hand written automation and manual afterwork.

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Re: How to reverse engineer Cobol
« Reply #2 on: April 18, 2012, 08:05:05 pm »
I was already afraid of this but I just wanted to be sure I did not overlook something.
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