Pro*Cobol in VMS to Unix environment

Please let me know if I can use my current Pro*Cobol programs in
Unix environment. We are planning to convert our platform to
Unix. Presently I am using DCL on VMS. Thanks in advance for all
your answers
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HI
It will still support Cobol in order to cater to the clients who are still in mainframe systems and those clients who have their legacy systems in Cobol.
Regards,
Bibs

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