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In article <1993Mar13.153843.26423@unet.net.com> dsilvia@blunt.net.com (Dave Silvia) writes:
>In article <16B8F86E1.M21816@MBVM.Mitre.Org> M21816@MBVM.Mitre.Org (Paul Campbell) writes:
>>hi all,
>> 
>>i would appreciate hearing from anyone who has migrated applications
>>from VM to OS/2 (486).  i don't know any of the details of either
>>environment (i am posting for a colleague) except to say that he has
>>PROFS, SQL/DS and REXX/XEDIT concerns.  he is especially interested
>>moving PL/I applications.  is there a PL/I compiler for OS/2, either
>>IBM's or 3rd party?  does anyone know of PL/I code translator, maybe
>>PL/I to C?  thanks /pc
>
>This is *NOT* a flame, just a personal observation.  This sounds to me like
>'Does anyone know how to convert a druid to astrology?'.  'Migrate' here is
>like 'port' elsewhere.  The assumption is that there are more commonalities
>than not.  Having worked in/with both systems, my best advice (and it's really
>not advice, just an observation) is dump the old and pick up the new (no time
>bias should be implied, just 'what I used to use' vs. 'what I use now':).
>Trying to 'hang' on to the old methodology (i.e., understand a system new to
>the user in terms of the system the user is used to [when they are *far*
>separated]) will only aggravate your trials.
>
>That said, here are the tenuous  connections:
>
>PROFS:  ?
>
>PL/I:  ?
>
>REXX:  Batch files (*NOT* nearly as powerful)
>
>XEDIT:  Only third party.  Brief comes about as close as any for approximating
>		  a language.
>
>Again, painful as it may seem, understand the underlying algorithm of your
>'migrating' applications and don't 'migrate', rewrite them in OS/2 native
>languages as applicable. (After all, that's what the writers of OS/2 had to
>do in trying to emulate existing IBM archetechtures;^}  [ it is questionable
>that they succeeded ]).
>
>Dave S.

Sorry -- but that is not a real world answer, Dave.
And sorry to the orig. poster -- I have migrated other things but not PL/1
BUt I think you posted to the right groups to get an answer.  Best bet
is to consult the IBM EVIS database.  I will try for you.  I am sure
someone some where is doing this.

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