Re: Conversion of data & associated logic from ISAM to RDB

In article <131uoo31usaadf7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Rick Smith <ricksmith@xxxxxxx> wrote:

<docdwarf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:evleq8$o9j$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In article <131sb8b2f0atpc7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Rick Smith <ricksmith@xxxxxxx> wrote:

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< http://www.microfocusworld.com/track_page.php?id=5 >
"A partner will present a session that shows how a relational
database can be used with a COBOL application using
standard COBOL I/O statements, WITHOUT any changes
to the code!"

Perhaps the best is no conversion, at all! Just upgrade to the
latest technology.

Mr Smith, come now... an organisation where the analyst recommends
timestamping records... errrr, rows in a database and the manager has to
turn to the UseNet for help will not, in my experience, embrace a solution
which requires Spending Money to upgrade technology or sending someone of
sufficient technical competence to benefit from the experience - as
opposed to, say, a Corner-Office Idiot - to the Royal Pacific Resort in
Orlando, FL, USA for three days.

Apart from your alleged experience, this latest
technology would reasonably permit one to identify
"rows in a database" as records since there would
be no difference with respect to a COBOL program,
where the concept "records in a file" is common.

Mr Smith, I am not sure what you are calling 'a COBOL program' here.
According to the last version of the COBOL Language Reference I consulted
(<http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/FRAMESET/IGY3LR10/CCONTENTS?DT=20020920180651>
or thereabouts) there are Reserved Words for file and record access; where
are you finding the ones which allow 'a COBOL program' to address a
database?

('Reasonable' might be in the mind of the beholder, of course; a fuel
injector might be the same with respect to an automobile as a
carburetor... errr, carburettor... oh, such things make me tyred...
anyhow, the two devices might be the same in that they both assist in
supplying the engine with air/fuel mixtures; it may be that 'a rose, by
any other name', has a different place in poetry than it could in a
technically-oriented workplace.)

DD

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