Re: Thoughts on MF COBOL, Unix, and RDBMS

On Sun, 04 May 2008 11:01:51 +0100, Frederico Fonseca <real-email-in-msg-spam@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Sat, 03 May 2008 01:05:28 -0500, Robert <no@xxxxxx> wrote:

On Sat, 3 May 2008 12:51:38 +1200, "Pete Dashwood" <dashwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I have some programs written in Fujitsu COBOL (generated by a tool) that run
in a Windows environment, read ISAM and write a RDB using embedded SQL and
ODBC.

I would like to have these programs run in a Unix environment. There is a
COBOL compiler (MicroFocus) available but it doesn't support SQL, and the
ISAM is C-ISAM. :-)

It does support SQL, either through the MF-supported OpenESQL precompiler or the Oracle
buggy and no longer supported PRO*COBOL. You can talk through ODBC or OCI (Oracle Call
Interface).
Robert,

Can you please supply us with the link from Oracle that states that
PRO*COBOL is no longer supported?

When I called for support, no one could figure out why PRO*COBOL was crashing, or knew
anything about it. The answer was that text beyond column 80 makes it crash. Oracle
documentation doesn't say that, either.
.

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