Hello,

I posted this to a COBOL group and got the suggestion to post here . .
so.

Has anybody had any experience upgrading from an old Windows NT
Thinkpad with VisualAge Cobol V2.2, CICS for Windows V3.1 and DB2 V7.1
to a new platform with upgraded software.

I tried going to a new XP Pro laptop with the old software and the
experience was brutal and failed.

Specifically the Cobol caused all kinds of nightmares. It installed,
programs compiled, but they all failed upon execution with the same
'The application failed to initalize properly (0xc0000005)'.

Any suggestions please/thanks.


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Graham Hobbs wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I posted this to a COBOL group and got the suggestion to post here . .
> so.
>
> Has anybody had any experience upgrading from an old Windows NT
> Thinkpad with VisualAge Cobol V2.2, CICS for Windows V3.1 and DB2 V7.1
> to a new platform with upgraded software.
>
> I tried going to a new XP Pro laptop with the old software and the
> experience was brutal and failed.
>
> Specifically the Cobol caused all kinds of nightmares. It installed,
> programs compiled, but they all failed upon execution with the same
> 'The application failed to initalize properly (0xc0000005)'.
>
> Any suggestions please/thanks.
>
> --
> Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com

Have you tried changing the compatibility mode

Graham Hobbs wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I posted this to a COBOL group and got the suggestion to post here . .
> so.
>
> Has anybody had any experience upgrading from an old Windows NT
> Thinkpad with VisualAge Cobol V2.2, CICS for Windows V3.1 and DB2 V7.1
> to a new platform with upgraded software.
>
> I tried going to a new XP Pro laptop with the old software and the
> experience was brutal and failed.
>
> Specifically the Cobol caused all kinds of nightmares. It installed,
> programs compiled, but they all failed upon execution with the same
> 'The application failed to initalize properly (0xc0000005)'.
>
> Any suggestions please/thanks.
>
>

Hi Graham,

Just curious, if you are using a DB2 engine, why use Cobol? have you
thought of creating a new front-end for your database?

I have nothing against IBM, but there concept of 'enterprise'
development packages haven't really changed much in the last 20 years.

Ciao . . . C.Joseph