Re: COBOL Compiler for Windows

On 04/29/08 01:44 am, Richard wrote:
On Apr 29, 4:11 pm, Graham Hobbs <gho...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello,
Further questions please..
Do the MS and Fujitsu compilers support VSAM KSDS files? What about

What do you mean by 'support' ? You are unlikely to find a VSAM KSDS
file on Windows. Windows is not MVS or zOS. It does, however, have
Cobol INDEXED SEQUENTIAL files.

The IBM workstation compilers [while you may not like the prices], do allow use of emulated VSAM files. These programs can be directly ported [via just a recompile] between the mainframe/workstation assuming you don't intentionally use features that are unique to the platform.

DB2 access, CICS access, guess I'm asking EXEC CICS suchandsuch

Winows does not normally run a CICS service. CICS is not part of
Cobol, though normally Cobol programs are used in a CICS service.

I have not looked lately, but certainly there used to be workstation based CICS packages that would run the programs compiled by workstation compilers.

and
EXEC SQL suchandsuch.

SQL service is also not part of Cobol. Most SQL is achieved with a
different product, such as a preprocessor, that converts the EXEC SQL
lines into Cobol CALLs and such.

Well, not quite true. The Enterprise COBOL [and PL/I] compilers have integrated the processing of CICS and DB2 'EXEC ...' statements into the compiler. While you can still use the preprocessors, they are no longer required.

Fujitsu version 3 does not include (AFAIK) SQL. Later versions of
Fujitsu do support ODBC access through a limited set of EXEC SQL
statements. You can always write the appropriate CALL statements.
I have no knowledge of what Fujitsu provides.
.

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