Dear All,

What are the main differences between migrating CSP to EGL and migrating COBOL written in VAGen to EGL?

the current environment is

RBD 8.5

VAGen 4.5

Smalltalk server

VA Developer for smalltalk

Thank you very much in advance

Hi,

Please see this link to the CSP V4.1 to EGL Migration White Paper.

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/W75c8733d99bb_4d55_9ee8_4dbc8c56ebee/page/Cross%20System%20Product%20v4.1%20Migration%20to%20EGL

You can download the white paper from there.

The main differences are:

a.) You have to be concerned with the CSP to VAGen migration considerations as there were differences in COBOL Gen at that time

b.) Source was stored in MSLs in CSP vs "packages" type organization as in VAGen...so you have to determine how to organize the code

c.) You still need to migrate "through" VAGen to get to EGL

I also just added the CSP to VAGen Migration Guide to the page above so that it is available for reference if you do not have this guide.

Note:  There are business partners who have the knowledge and skill to do this type of migration if needed.

One other note..

I would recommend doing any migration into RBD/EGL V9.5.   This is the latest release and would give the longest lifecycle for a customer.   RBD V8.5 is now our oldest release, so would not be a good candidate.

take care.

Mark

Hello Mark,

Thank you very much

Sorry for not being clear from begining, we don't have CSP, we have VAGen on smalltalk

is there a guide or something to migrate from VAgen on smalltalk to EGL?

As stated in the previous post, please see the VAGen to EGL Migration guide in the RBD knowledge Center

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSMQ79_9.5.0/com.ibm.etools.vagen.mig.doc/topics/teglmig0001.html

It is also available on the EGL Wiki in developerworks.