I've never read COBOL in my life and have been tasked with rewriting the old COBOL code in a new language. Are there any free or free-to-try software packages out there that will generate a flow chart for a COBOL program?
I've looked at "Visustin" and "Code Visual to Flowchart"
Visustin blanks out part of the code and does random rotations in the demo version, which causes the demo to be less accurate.
I couldn't get Code Visual Flow Chart to work correctly with our code.
Know of any other packages I might try?
I've written a simple flow chart generator for COBOL in python, which uses Graphiz. It's really trivial and generate a .jpg chart that is useful for my purposes, maybe it won't be the same for you.
Anyway, if you want you can send me a mail here http://www.contactify.com/a6148 and i'll send you my little script. If you're on linux you almost certainly have python installed, on windows you have to install it together with yapgvb module
Let me know! Bye