V2057A@TEMPLEVM.BITNET (Juan Jose Noyles) (02/05/90)
I'm about to purchase Realia COBOL & RealCICS. It's $995/component ($1990 for these two). They let you evaluate it for a month before you buy. It's so compatible with IBM's OS COBOL/CICS, they give you an IBM manual as the major documentation! I won't be on again until next weekend, so you may want to call Chicago's information and ask for Realia, Inc.
V2057A@TEMPLEVM.BITNET (Juan Jose Noyles) (02/05/90)
Addendum: It does emulate VSAM, and has a source level debugger. I don't know much about CICS at this point (negotiating for training now. Do you know of any good 'schools' in the Philadelphia PA area?), but from going through their demo code it seems pretty good. They also have a screen painter available, DL/1 emulation ($995 as well. The screen painter is substantially cheaper though, about $100-200, I think). I'm also trying to get it through a computer store. It will cost $1695 that way.