Re: Development tool recommendations sought

hp <tic.ab.ca> wrote: > I work for a medium sized corporation in western Canada. My company is >currently looking to migrate its 'big' applications (warehousing >management, head office systems, etc.) from the proprietary Honeywell-Bull >mainframe database, TPS, and its COBOL 'development tool' ;) > The corporate direction is to migrate to a new tool set that is able to >access many databases on a broad range of platforms. ...... > Any and all suggestions and/or recommendations as to databases and tools >would be welcome. > Thank you in advance, Tim. > hp@tic.ab.ca You might want to look at "Migrating Legacy Applications: Gateways, Interfaces & the Incremental Approach", Brodie and Stonebreaker, published by Morgan Kaufman (1995). It suggests some overall approaches to your situation. Don't underestimate the effort involved in building the "middleware" which will connect the new applications to the old databases.