Control flow normalization for COBOL/CICS legacy systems

Proceedings of the 2nd Euromicro Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, CSMR 1998

Volumn 1998-March, Issue , 1998, Pages 11-19

  Van Den Brand, Mark ^a   Sellink, Alex ^a   Verhoef, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

CICS; COBOL; Control flow normalization; Interface reengineering; Language migration; Reengineering; System renovation

Indexed keywords

COBOL (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; REENGINEERING;

CICS; COBOL; CONTROL FLOWS; LANGUAGE MIGRATIONS; SYSTEM RENOVATION;

LEGACY SYSTEMS;

EID: 33646211577     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSMR.1998.665727     Document Type: Conference Paper

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