I know we’ve all done this in the past with past changes to Cobol over the decades.
We seek to get basic approach and what issues you may have ran into if any with conversion to Cobol 6.2 and especially when it comes to Endevor.
Insights will help with our plans.
With Cobol 6.2 it brings a whole new set of changes.
Some specifically, the compile listing, which is really different. Changes to the jcl which in turn translates to processors.
To test the changes of the jcl outside of Endevor first and then apply to processors to confirm they behave the same.
We know about the load libs have to be converted to PDSE, which have. There is still further reading on the changes that IBM has posted.
We realize every site is different and have tools like Xpediter, Intertest, different databases DB2 etc that are involved.
So any lessons learned which anyone can pass on would be appreciated.
We are currently v17 and z/OS 2.3.
Thanks.