PL/I was developed by IBM as part of the development of System/360 in the mid-1960s. It received significant use in business data processing, and also for more general programming use throughout the 1970s. Today there are still many applications relying on PL/I.
Nowadays, due to the dwindling number of experienced PL/I language programmers, businesses are looking for ways to transition away from the use of the PL/I language, and yet retain the tremendous investment they have made in their PL/I code base.
The BluePhoenix migration solution PL/I to COBOL is a comprehensive, automated, and time-efficient solution that migrates PL/I programs to functionally equivalent COBOL programs.
Business Benefits
- Reduces maintenance costs
- Makes application enhancement easier
- Provides cost-effective migration
- Eliminates the IT resources problem
- Enables using the existing and proven logic and investment, and modifying the application according to business needs
- Uses proven, automated tools, thereby mitigating many of the project risks
BluePhoenix’s PL/I migration solution maps each PL/I instruction to a corresponding fragment of COBOL code. Registers, flags, and storage are mapped to COBOL variables that together simulate the original architecture.
The functionality of the original PL/I program is completely preserved during the migration.