Beautify code

I have a huge Cobol program which I have been asked to maintain.
Unfortunately its very badly indented which makes it difficult to follow.

Does anyone know of any software (preferably free) which will indent it
nicely for me?

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Steve Rainbird wrote:
> I have a huge Cobol program which I have been asked to maintain.
> Unfortunately its very badly indented which makes it difficult to follow.
>
> Does anyone know of any software (preferably free) which will indent it
> nicely for me?
>
Google came back with some interesting hits for the terms "COBOL
beautifier".

Years ago we tried to use a mainframe utility called recoder to replace
go to loops with perform untils...unfortunately the resulting source
code was also hard to understand, and some of our really bad sphagetthi
code made the poor thing do a core dump...

Chris

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> Steve Rainbird wrote: 
> Google came back with some interesting hits for the terms "COBOL
> beautifier".


Not really. The only one it came up with was something called cblbeau which
costs $495 for the non-trial version.  I only want to do one program!

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> Not really. The only one it came up with was something called cblbeau whic
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> costs $495 for the non-trial version.  I only want to do one program!
>
Really?  I found <http://www.siber.com/sct/tools/cbl-beau.html> as the
first hit, which is advertised as shareware you can try with no line
count restrictions.

I'm not sure how you feel about shareware for what is probably a
commercial use, but I suppose a single use is not really a lost sale.

There is payware at <http://www.semdesigns.com/Purchase/#Formatters> for
US$250.

And it looks like SlickEdit can beautify COBOL, as well.  Might be hard
to get a copy, but you could check eBay.  Perhaps other editors also do
this (i.e., that Swiss-army knife known as Emacs might be a start).

If you already have a compiler license, see if your vendor has a
beautifier.  For example, I think COBOL85 from Fujitsu has a bundles
"structurizer".

Finally, some products like JIndent might be able to do COBOL, or they
are considering it.

Steve Rainbird wrote:
> I have a huge Cobol program which I have been asked to maintain.
> Unfortunately its very badly indented which makes it difficult to follow.
>
> Does anyone know of any software (preferably free) which will indent it ni
cely for me?
>
>
Are you working on an IBM z/OS mainframe?  If so, is the program being
compiled with a currently supported IBM COBOL compiler?  And, if so,
does your shop have the IBM Debug Tool, including the Debug Tool
Utilities and Advanced Functions?  (This module of the Debug Tool
includes IBM CCCA - see below.)

Or, do you have the IBM COBOL Structuring Facility?  (This is a
reformatting tool.)

Or, do you have IBM VisualAge COBOL?  (The Enterprise Edition included
ports of CCCA and CSF; the last version I had, though, these tools were
only available in the OS/2 version.  Later versions, I believe, had them
for the Windoze version - OS/2 support got dropped.  This tool may have
been rolled into WebSphere; I haven't been keeping up.)

Or, do you have IBM CCCA (COBOL & CICS Conversion Aid)?  (As the name
implies, this tool converts OldBOL to NewBOL, to borrow Bill Klein's
terminology.)

The above are tools for the mainframe that would assist you in
reformatting your code.
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There is a non-IBM tool, named MHtran-2, from Prince Software.
This is also a conversion aid, and may be able to do reformatting.
You'll have to Google to find out.

"void * clvrmnky()" <clvrmnky.invalid@hotmail.com.invalid> wrote in message
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> Steve Rainbird wrote: 
> Really?  I found <http://www.siber.com/sct/tools/cbl-beau.html> as the
> first hit, which is advertised as shareware you can try with no line count
> restrictions.
>

That is cblbeau.  I tried it and it comes up with an error which says

"too many arguments: 512. This is likely to be a trial version limitation."

> I'm not sure how you feel about shareware for what is probably a
> commercial use, but I suppose a single use is not really a lost sale.
>
> There is payware at <http://www.semdesigns.com/Purchase/#Formatters> for
> US$250.
>
> And it looks like SlickEdit can beautify COBOL, as well.  Might be hard to
> get a copy, but you could check eBay.  Perhaps other editors also do this
> (i.e., that Swiss-army knife known as Emacs might be a start).
>
> If you already have a compiler license, see if your vendor has a
> beautifier.  For example, I think COBOL85 from Fujitsu has a bundles
> "structurizer".
>
> Finally, some products like JIndent might be able to do COBOL, or they are
> considering it.


We use MicroFocus  which I don't believe has a supplied beautifier unless
anybody knows otherwise.

Thanks for your other suggestions I think we may already have SlickEdit I
will have a dig.

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> Steve Rainbird wrote: 
> Are you working on an IBM z/OS mainframe?

<snip>

No Microfocus on Linux.

Thanks for the suggestions anyway.
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> We use MicroFocus  which I don't believe has a supplied beautifier unless
> anybody knows otherwise.
>

Should have added that is MF Server Express.

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> And it looks like SlickEdit can beautify COBOL, as well.  Might be hard to
> get a copy, but you could check eBay.  Perhaps other editors also do this
> (i.e., that Swiss-army knife known as Emacs might be a start).


As far as I can see SlickEdit can only beautify

Ada
. C#
. C/C++
. CFML
. HTML
. Java
. JavaScript
. Slick-C
. XML and XSD

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