From COBOL to SQL through program transformation and XML

Meziane, F; Aliwa, J

Abstract

The cost of maintaining legacy software systems has spiralled and
their maintenance became a burden for many organisations. In this
paper we present the first prototype of the LOBS-COQ system
that attempts to transform COBOL legacy systems into relational
database schema and produce SQL statements for data querying.
The approach first transforms the COBOL source code into XML
files, which are then processed to create tables and develop SQL
statements. Frames are used to develop the SQL statements.
COBOL statements are parsed and the information extracted is
used to fill the frames’ slots.

Citation

Meziane, F., & Aliwa, J. (2003, July). From COBOL to SQL through program transformation and XML. Presented at Third International Conference on Information Technology in Asia (CITA 2003), Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia

• Presentation Conference Type: Other
• Conference Name: Third International Conference on Information Technology in Asia (CITA 2003)
• Conference Location: Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
• Start Date: Jul 1, 2003
• Publication Date: Jul 1, 2003
• Deposit Date: Mar 2, 2009
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 2, 2009
• Keywords: Legacy systems, program transformation, COBOL, SQL, XML
• Related Public URLs: http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/cita/cita2003.html
• Additional Information: Event Type : Conference