# How to convert Reporting Mode files to Structured Mode **URL:** \ **Category:** Forum\ **Tags:** Adabas-Natural, Natural, Natural-Utilities, Natural-on-Windows-Unix\ **Created:** [February 4, 2011, 8:58pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/how-to-convert-reporting-mode-files-to-structured-mode/96151 "2011-02-04T20:58:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tushar1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9a140/32.png) [@Tushar1](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Tushar1)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2011, 8:58pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/how-to-convert-reporting-mode-files-to-structured-mode/96151/1 "2011-02-04T20:58:28Z")
Is there any utility that migrates Reporting Mode files to Structured Mode. ---
**Author:** ![Matthias1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc348/32.png) [@Matthias1](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Matthias1)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2011, 9:12pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/how-to-convert-reporting-mode-files-to-structured-mode/96151/2 "2011-02-04T21:12:10Z")
[http://tech.forums.softwareag.com/viewtopic.php?t=7048](http://tech.forums.softwareag.com/viewtopic.php?t=7048) … sounds like Natural Engineer does something like that. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/original/3X/c/d/cd19967bb605d28a72d77eb83a1cae22f3df2eb8.svg) [@system](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 3:01am UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/how-to-convert-reporting-mode-files-to-structured-mode/96151/3 "2011-02-07T03:01:42Z")
Yes, Natural Engineer (NEE) has a “Mode Conversion” Utility which converts Reporting Mode to Structured Mode … [http://techcommunity.softwareag.com/ecosystem/documentation/natural/nee621/pdf/mfr/uti.pdf](http://techcommunity.softwareag.com/ecosystem/documentation/natural/nee621/pdf/mfr/uti.pdf) . But of course, one must purchase NEE 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Tushar1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9a140/32.png) [@Tushar1](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Tushar1)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2011, 11:41am UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/how-to-convert-reporting-mode-files-to-structured-mode/96151/4 "2011-02-09T11:41:20Z")
Thanks for the reply. It is possible to use this Natural Engineer on library loaded in Natural for windows. ---
**Author:** ![Ats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/da6949/32.png) [@Ats](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Ats)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2011, 12:56pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/how-to-convert-reporting-mode-files-to-structured-mode/96151/5 "2011-02-09T12:56:48Z")
Yes Tushar, Natural Engineer 6.2.1 is the latest version for Windows, but I suspect it has a trial version :?: . Need to purchase. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Smith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/user_avatar/techcommunity.softwareag.com/john_smith/32/39012_2.png) [@John\_Smith](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/John_Smith)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2012, 2:40am UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/how-to-convert-reporting-mode-files-to-structured-mode/96151/6 "2012-02-11T02:40:56Z")
Hi, does anyone know if there is other software instead of nee that convert “automatically” report to structure mode? tks. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/original/3X/c/d/cd19967bb605d28a72d77eb83a1cae22f3df2eb8.svg) [@system](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2012, 9:07am UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/how-to-convert-reporting-mode-files-to-structured-mode/96151/7 "2012-02-11T09:07:39Z")
I am not aware of any, but you do not need to buy NEE, you can just offload the sources and Software AG will do the conversion for a nominal fee. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Robinson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/user_avatar/techcommunity.softwareag.com/steve_robinson/32/107_2.png) [@Steve\_Robinson](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Steve_Robinson)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 1:09pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/how-to-convert-reporting-mode-files-to-structured-mode/96151/8 "2012-02-12T13:09:03Z")
There is the question of why the code is being converted in the first place. steve ---
**Author:** ![John\_Smith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/user_avatar/techcommunity.softwareag.com/john_smith/32/39012_2.png) [@John\_Smith](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/John_Smith)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 1:53pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/how-to-convert-reporting-mode-files-to-structured-mode/96151/9 "2012-02-12T13:53:34Z")
Hi Steve, one of the reasons to convert is to be prepared to use with other tecnology. Almost all software for this purpose work only in structured mode. I would like to know/have other companies/solutions options. tks ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/original/3X/c/d/cd19967bb605d28a72d77eb83a1cae22f3df2eb8.svg) [@system](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 2:10pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/how-to-convert-reporting-mode-files-to-structured-mode/96151/10 "2012-02-12T14:10:39Z")
What is the problem with having Software AG do the conversion for you ? How many report mode modules are we talking about here ? ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Robinson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/user_avatar/techcommunity.softwareag.com/steve_robinson/32/107_2.png) [@Steve\_Robinson](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Steve_Robinson)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 12:11pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/how-to-convert-reporting-mode-files-to-structured-mode/96151/11 "2012-02-13T12:11:25Z")
> [@John Smith](#): > > one of the reasons to convert is to be prepared to use with other tecnology. Almost all software for this purpose work only in structured mode. > > tks John, what type of technology are you referring to? Object code, of course, does not distinguish between report and structured mode. Thus, the only software I can imagine that would work with only structured mode is software that only works with source code. steve ---
**Author:** ![John\_Smith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/user_avatar/techcommunity.softwareag.com/john_smith/32/39012_2.png) [@John\_Smith](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/John_Smith)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 12:27pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/how-to-convert-reporting-mode-files-to-structured-mode/96151/12 "2012-02-13T12:27:33Z")
Hi, I am talking about 100,000 objects, and 70% of them are in report mode. Almost all software that propose to migrate the applications to other technology, such as Natural to Cobol, Natural to Java, Natural to .net…, uses source code to do the process to migrate it, and the sources would need to be in structured mode. tks. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/original/3X/c/d/cd19967bb605d28a72d77eb83a1cae22f3df2eb8.svg) [@system](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 7:23pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/how-to-convert-reporting-mode-files-to-structured-mode/96151/13 "2012-02-13T19:23:22Z")
Good luck in converting such a large system to “something else”. I don’t understand why shops, rather than building on that solid foundation and enhancing it, throw away their assets and dive into something that I have never seen to perform anywhere near what was there before, but anyway, not my business, not my money 😉 Looks to me like you’ve got two options: - Let Software AG convert these 70k objetcs for you - Ask the vendors of “other software” to understand report mode ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Robinson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/user_avatar/techcommunity.softwareag.com/steve_robinson/32/107_2.png) [@Steve\_Robinson](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Steve_Robinson)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 11:46am UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/how-to-convert-reporting-mode-files-to-structured-mode/96151/14 "2012-02-14T11:46:26Z")
If you use one of the “converters” you mentioned, you wind up with bad Cobol code, or bad Java code, or bad .net code. Check around with shops who have tried this. They will tell you no self respecting Java programmer (to use just one example), would ever write code produced by such a converter. You will wind up with a maintenance nightmare. Ask a vendor to convert a few objects for you. Then turn them over to a good programmer in the target language for a critique. You will get quite an earful. steve ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/original/3X/c/d/cd19967bb605d28a72d77eb83a1cae22f3df2eb8.svg) [@system](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 2:59pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/how-to-convert-reporting-mode-files-to-structured-mode/96151/15 "2021-04-02T14:59:45Z")