Restructuring of COBOL/CICS legacy systems

Science of Computer Programming

Volumn 45, Issue 2-3, 2002, Pages 193-243

  Sellink, Alex ^a   Sneed, Harry ^b   Verhoef, Chris ^c  

^a Quackcom   (United States)

^b SES Software Engineering Services   (Germany)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

CICS; COBOL; Control flow normalization; Reengineering; Remodularization; Repartitioning; System renovation; Teleprocessing system; Transaction processing system

Indexed keywords

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERNET; INTRANETS; REENGINEERING;

TELEPROCESSING SYSTEM;

LEGACY SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036836843     PISSN: 01676423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6423(02)00061-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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