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Hi,

I need some ideas as to what tool I could develop for Mainframe COBOL,JCL or CICS in REXX
I need to develop a new tool, something that is not currently available in the market

I saw three posts on this exact same issue today: it looks as if IT people are being asked to provide data to or from Microsoft Excel. As far as I know, no one has yet developed a tool that can provide a complete conversion between raw data and the Excel .xls file format, with full formatting available.

Hello,

I need to develop a new tool, something that is not currently available in the market

Suggest you speak with you peers and management to find out if there is some function that they do not have that they would benefit from having.

Something you might consider that while there are many expensive "tools" in the market that are not on your system, it may benefit your organization to implement similar functionality (or a subset) locally. Many (most) sites have some amount of local "own code" tools.

Is there some management direction to do this, or is this for educational reasons?

How about a tool that would accurately pick the winning lottery numbers every week!!

Hi Kristine,

can we develope some tool using rexx which will copy the entire copy book into word doc...by formating it...similar ti formating data for req docs...pls ignore if its stupid solution

apart replying to a 3 year old topic there are already tools that format cobol code/copybooks as HTML pages with syntax highlighting

Hi Enrico,

Where can I find this tools because In our organization we dont have such tools. Can you please let me w how to develop or how to get this tools???

File # 769 R. Prins' edit macros to convert code/text into HTML, for Assembler, PL/I, REXX, COBOL, JCL (better than ISPF's HI) & SuperC (Incomplete support). Runs on z/OS and PCs. Package on the CBT tape site is somewhat out of date with regards to PL/I (and COBOL?) keywords.

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balamurali cl (Wed Sep 05, 2012 12:49 am)

I am not able to open the file you have sent here....Can I have a document or link?

the link will directly download the file into Your browser download directory
look for cbt769.zip