Extending legacy technologies. (Response Time).(Letter to the Editor)

Enterprise Systems Journal, June, 2002

I enjoyed Joe McKendrick's April column ("How Best to Extend Legacy Technologies?") on host integration.

Our organization is rich with COBOL expertise and business knowledge, and little in the realm of Webifying our legacy applications. Our GUI tools must support IBM's CICS VSE/ESA (running under VM as a guest) with VSE DL/1 hierarchical databases and VSE VSAM files. We're looking at IBM's Visual Age Generator.

Does Joe have any suggestions or resources on tools that would help us build a Web front-end to our COBOL legacy applications? Also, how could I get a copy of the Gartner report he mentioned?

--David L. Robinson, DBA 
Virginia Supreme Court 
Richmond, Va. 
drobinson@courts.state.va.us 

The Gartner report sums up the options...

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