1. Vancouver Utilities - Details
Mainframe Migration Tools to convert
JCL, COBOL,& DATA
General Purpose Data Utilities
For Unix, Linux, or Windows
Replacements for Mainframe Utilities
SORT/SYNCSORT replaced by uvsort
IEBGENER/IDCAMS replaced by uvcp

2. 5 Parts to Conversion JCL conversion to Korn shell scripts
COBOL porting to Micro Focus
Data conversion EBCDIC to ASCII
VU Testing & Debugging Aids
Mainframe Data Utility Replacements

3. JCL Conversion - Highlights
DDN/DSN converted to Export DDN=DSN
SORT/SYNCSORT converted to ‘uvsort’
IEBGENER/IDCAMS converted to ‘uvcp’
GDG files converted to ksh functions
Console logging
Micro Focus COBOL animation made easy
Replacements for Ditto, Dyl280, Easytrieve
$RUNDATA/$RUNLIBS testing/production
Laser scripts, 132 cols x 66 lines on 8½ x 11

4. Notes re Hyperlinked Samples
Hyperlinked samples begin on next slide
Click hyperlinks (Red) to view sample files
Returning to slide depends on your browser
IE – use your back button, do not kill
IE displays both PPT & HTML samples
FireFox – kill the browser (X)
Firefox downloads PPT to run on your desktop
And honors the hyperlinks to samples on web

5. JCL Conversion Example #1
sample JCL & script (1 step COBOL)
Korn shell script equivalent

6. JCL Conversion Ex#2 (SORT)
Sample SORT conversion to uvsort
- original mainframe SORT step
- equivalent uvsort in ksh script

7. SyncSort conversion to uvsort
Syncsort functionality at lower cost
INCLUDEs,OMITs,SUMs,OUTREC,etc.
Uvsort sels, dels, sums, mvcs, etc.
sample INCLUDE AND/OR conditions

8. JCL Conversion #3 (GDG files)
GDG files supported by ksh functions
exportgen0, exportgen1, exportgenp
sample JCL & script with GDG files

9. IEBGENER & IDCAMS IEBGENER converted to ‘uvcp’
IDCAMS REPRO converted to ‘uvcp’
IEBGENER & IDCAMS JCL sample
Korn shell script equivalent

10. COBOL porting to Micro Focus
Not much to do, but saves manual editing
Insert EXTERNAL on select/assign stmts
Translate to lower case except in quotes
more modern appearance
easier to edit with unix/linux editors (vi,etc)
Insert detail file status test code
For Micro Focus extended file status display

11. Data Conversion Translate EBCDIC to ASCII
Preserving packed/binary fields
Correcting zoned signs to ASCII standards
Conversion jobs generated from copybooks
and LISTCAT file specs
1 script to generate all conversion jobs
1 command to convert all data files

12. Data Conversion Example
Conversions generated from copybooks
Sample copybook (citytax1.cpy)
CobMap record layout from copybook
Sample cobmap (citytax.map)
Data conversion job (uvcopy)
Sample uvcopy data conversion (citytax1.uv)

13. Data File specs from LISTCAT
LISTCAT info completes conversions
added to copybook/cobmap/uvcopy job
Data filename, file type, Indexed keys
Sample LISTCAT & extracted control file
uvcopy job completed by control file

14. Converting files for RDBMS
Convert data to pipe delimited text files
Packed/binary fields edited signs & decimals
Packed/binary fields unpacked & edited
Conversion jobs auto-gen’d from copybooks
SQL loader control file also generated
Sample pipe delimited output file
Sample uvcopy job to perform pipe delimit
Sample loader control file

15. Conversion Directories
For JCL,COBOL,& Data conversions
Conversion Libraries
Data directories for testing or production
sample test data subdirs

16. Scripts convert All JCL/COBOL/DATA
jcl2ksh5A – convert All JCL to ksh
cnvMF5A – convert all COBOL to Micro Focus
gencnvC - generate all Data conversion jobs
uvcopyxx pfx2/* - execute all data convert jobs

17. Scripts to convert 1 JCL/COBOL/DataFile
jcl2ksh51 – convert 1 JCL to ksh
cnvMF51 – convert 1 program to MicroFocus
gencnvB – convert 1 datafile to ASCII
genpipeA – convert 1 file to pipe-delimited
uvcopy pfx3/datafilename – execute 1 conversion job

18. Testing & Debugging Aids
uvhd & uvhdcob – data file investigation
Browse, search, update, print, etc
uvhd – sample EBCDIC file display
uvhd dat1ebc/custmas1 r256s3a
uvhd – sample ASCII file display
uvhd dat2asc/custmas1 r256s3
uvhdcob – sample record display
uvhdcob dat2asc/custmas1 maps/custmas1

19. COBOL Cross-References
xcobcall1 – list called programs in each program
xcobcall2 – crossref programs calling any 1 program
xcobcopy1 – list copybooks in each program
xcobcopy2 – crossref programs using any 1 copybook
- please see xcobcopy2 (most useful cross-reference)
cobfiles - COBOL files report
organization, access, open-mode, recsize, copybook,

20. JCL Cross-References xjkshfile1 – list datafiles in each JCL/script
xjkshfile2 – crossref programs using any 1 datafile
xjkshprog1 – list programs in each JCL/script
xjkshprog2 – crossref JCL/scripts using any 1 program
Jobflow reports – generated from JCL+COBOL
Show file I/O from step to step in multi-step jobs
Sample jobflow report

21. Converting DYL280 to uv… Sample#1 – file init (write 1 blank/zero rec)
Mainframe DYL280 code
Equivalent uvcp
Equivalent uvcopy
Sample#2 – add records to an indexed file

22. Pre-Programmed uvcopy jobs
table2 – table summaries by arguments
Table entries limited only by memory
Table dumped at EOF in argument sequence
Percentages on every line of 100% total line
Sample input data file
Sample table summary report
Operating instructions & console displays
uvcopy job equivalent

23. Replacements for Mainframe Utilities
(Dyl280,Easytrieve,QuikJob,Ditto,etc)
uvqrpg – Report Generator
up to 8 control break fields & total levels
up to 100 accumulators per level
built in sort
Sample input file
Sample output report
Sample uvqrpg code

24. End of Conversion Details
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