Re: OO-COBOL for Unisys IX

From: LX-i (lxi0007_at_netscape.net)
Date: 09/24/04 

Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 18:04:24 -0500

Lko Willms wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 17:00:54 -0500, LX-i wrote:
>
>>Our biggest problem is that our configuration management system has been
>>scripted (with ECL and whatnot) to automate a mainframe compile from a
>>web page. The PC-based preprocessor hasn't shown enough benefit yet for
>> us to try to script that, then send the intermediate results up to the
>>mainframe to let UCOB and LINK finish them off.
>
>
> This is a misunderstanding. OO-COBOL is not a preprocessor for UCOB. At
> least according to the manuals, you could use OO-COBOL _instead_ of UCOB, and
> providing all the extensions like Embedded SQL, DMS access, and IBM Tape
> processing.
>
> The PC produces intermediate code which is sent to the host and is
> processed there by @OCOB, with an O, not by @UCOB. @OCOB produces an Omnibus
> which could be directly @XQTed or @LINKed.
>
> The transfer of this intermediate code from the NT-workstation to the
> host is done automatically by the workstation program.

Have you had any luck automating that from another system, or do you use
it in the classic "human intervention" method?

>>It would take a big
>>change in policy to let it work. That's why I'd LOVE for Unisys to port
>>some OO COBOL to the mainframe compiler, even if it's still a
>>preprocessor for UCOB.
>
> Probably the compiler licenced from Hitachi is to much tied into WinNT
> that it can easily be ported to OS/1100.
>
> Also, I think that a workstation based editor can be more productive --
> OO-COBOL comes with a COBOL editor with syntax highlighting, and I doubt that
> this can be done as effectively with @IPF. See Vol. 4 of the OO-COBOL manuals
> (publication number 7851 5855-001).

Well, we're using Visual SlickEdit right now on the PC, which has all
kinds of cool support, syntax highlighting, a C-like scripting language,
etc. :)

Hopefully our busy time will clear up soon, so I'll have time to play
with it. 

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