Re: acucobol

Daniele_64 wrote:
Good afternoon,


Is it Procedural COBOL you want to get into or are you interested in Acu specific features like GUI-ing (Windows) ?

J need to read one db files created with one application written in acucobol.
J have not any experience with cobol .... so the wok will be so hard.........


Book-wise I would recommend Thane Hubbell's "Teach Yourself COBOL in 24 Hours"

J will buy this book .... and j hope to move my first steep with cobol withn 24 weeks !!!!!!!!
J need somthing like this, i windows:
Opend a DB (but j don't know the structure)
With a passed string get the related record (if exist)
Read one field and sored the value in a text file
Close and repeat the cycle.

If there is something who let me to acces to this db with delphi j have solved the problem .... but all delphi users
sed me who there are not any chance to access to this db with delphi !!!!!


Good luck !

Thank's, j really need it !!!!

Hope to read you again, Daniele

PS : Sorry for my bad english

Daniele,

Take it as read, your English is *considerably* better than my Italian :-)

Not quite clear what route you want to take given above. Do you in fact need to learn COBOL at all, or are you just interested in getting data from the DataBase to be used with another language. Are you already proficient in another language and just want to access the data bringing it into your own regularly used language.

What is the name of the Database we are talking about and are you already familiar with use of DBs ? I would think all database software has the ability to EXPORT to a text file (CSV = Comma Separated Variables) - are you familiar with the term.

For background you can also go to the following Home Page, and looks like you can select for translations into Italian. You can select 'Samples' and as a search I entered 'SQL' which gave me Acu references to Database usage.

http://www.acucorp.com/company/locations/

Naturally I know the name Delphi - but I am not familiar with what it does in total - searched and see it has a Database feature. Are you in fact working in Delphi with a database ? If that's the case, dependent upon the DB used in the AcuCOBOL application you should be able to EXPORT the data, (*without* using COBOL) and IMPORT the data into the Delphi DB - that might be your solution.

Jimmy
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