Taking an inventory of COBOL applications
For each program in your COBOL applications, include at least the following information in your inventory:
For all previous versions of COBOL:
- Programmer responsible
- COBOL Standard level of source program (68, 74, 85)
- Compiler used (ANS COBOL V4, OS/VS COBOL, VS COBOL II, IBM® COBOL, Enterprise COBOL V3, Enterprise COBOL V4)
- Compiler options used, especially CMPR2, NORES, XMLPARSE
- Precompiler options used
- Postprocessing options used
- COBOL modules
- COPY library members used in COBOL programs
- Called subprograms
- Calling programs
- Frequency of execution
- Test cases required and available
- Programs containing Report Writer statements
- Use of SIMVRDS, SOM-based OO, Millennium Language Extensions, or LABEL declaratives
This information is useful to you in the next step of your planning task, Prioritizing your applications.