Most client/server strategies look to the many UNIX COBOL compilers as the solution for migrating legacy applications off the mainframe, as if legacy means COBOL. In fact, only 60 percent of mainframe applications are written in COBOL. PL/I is a strong number two, making up half the remaining 40 percent.
The marketplace has been equally COBOL-centric, offering legacy migration tools that are solely for COBOL applications.
Until now, that is. Liant Software Corp. took a long look at the needs of the 300,000 PL/I programmers worldwide as they migrate and then support their applications in new-client/server environments. The result was Open PL/I.
PL/I Off The …
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