You may also be interested in tools that can extract decision tables from existing Cobol code. One such is analyze:R intranet from ReGenisys, which produces decision vectors similar (but not identical) to the tables used by Cope.

This example shows how a table extracted by analyze:R can be expressed more concisely using Cope's extended-entry notation.

The other tool is the KLIS Reengineering Feature, which generates tables suitable for SILK.


Read the example as follows:
  1. If Year is 94, add 400 to cost, add $4,000 to amount, then goback.
  2. If Year is 93, add 300 to cost, add $3,000 to amount, then goback.
  3. If Year is 92, add 200 to cost, add $2,000 to amount, then goback.
  4. In any other case, just goback.

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