Cobol and Cobol-Db2 program linking

narasridhar · New User Joined: 12 Oct 2006 Posts: 32 Location: India

Hi,

I have a plain cobol program. I want to call a program which is the Cobol-Db2 from the plain cobol program. How it is going to call or we can not do that?

Because to run a Db2 program we need IKJEFT01 step, but here this is sub program but the main program is only Cobol program....

Can anyone spend some time and clarify this doubt .......

Thanks in advance

ofer71 · Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 12:17 pm

You call the DB2 program the same way like you call any other COBOL program.

However, you are correct that now you have to invoke the main program under the DSN interface (what you called IKJEFT01).

O.

narasridhar · New User Joined: 12 Oct 2006 Posts: 32 Location: India

However when we are running the cobol-db2 program we are giving plan and the program name but here our plain cobol program will not be there in the plan, and where our cobol-db2 program name going to mention...

Could anyone can explain some what detail how it is going to connect these programs

Thanks in advance

ofer71 · Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 1:57 pm

I repeat - You don't need to "connect" them. In your batch job, use IKJEFT01 to run your program under the DSN interface. In the PROGRAM parameter, supply the name of the plain-COBOL program. In the PLAN parameter, supply the name of the COBOL-DB2 program.

O.