Before moving to Language Environment, ensure that your application programmers are familiar with the features of Language Environment and the differences between pre-Language Environment run times and the Language Environment run time.
Once your programmers are familiar with Language Environment, they can better prepare for the move to Language Environment. For example, they can assist in taking an inventory of applications. They can also code according to the suggestions listed in Suggestions for incremental migration.
For information on Enterprise COBOL and Language Environment education available through IBM, you can call 1-800-IBM-TEACH. You can also get information directly from Language Environment publications, from user groups (such as SHARE, www.share.org), and from the Web at www.ibm.com/s390/le.