[Info-vax] Moving away from OpenVMS

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 5/16/2012 3:53 AM, JF Mezei wrote:
> Eric Smith wrote:
>> Since this is a niche community, I'm appealing to anyone in the know
>> to find out who specialises in COBOL system migrations, specifically
>> *from* OpenVMS, to any modern platform (interpretation: Windows or
>> Linux)?  I'm looking for someone to come in and do the whole job and
>> leave us with a system that behaves just as it did before.
>
> If you have a lot of software on your VMS system, a move to Unix will
> require a lot of work. You need to consider for instance what happens if
> your Cobol uses indexed files and how you will provide that capability
> on Unix.

Just buy a replacement.

Arne