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cobolunni
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| dick scherrer wrote: |
| This may be way off the mark, but it sounds like you and/or your organization have been awarded or taken on a task that for which you have NO background and/or expertise. If this is correct, someone needs to inform your client and/or management that before you can perform the DB2 work properly, you have to learn the basics. |
Dear dick i am a BTECH student in electronics and communication . I am also attending a course on mainframe computer's.
You told that COBOL can update db2 tables. You are telling that in the basis of work on a mainframe computer's But mainframe is not the only machine which can use COBOL. COBOL is a programming language that can be used in any system. I am using Linux in my PC and uses opencobol to done my experiments with COBOL. That language doesn't have any native statements to deal with data base. Also as umaysen said this talk is unnecessary. As you said as a developers point of view he can do the db2 updating with COBOL
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A couple of times i've asked, received no reply, and will now ask again. . .
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| What kind of CALLs did you replace the SQL with? |
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| What calls did you have to put in your code? Might these be the same thing the pre-compiler generates? |
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Dick i am using open cobol to compile cobol in Linux. Open COBOL uses gcc( a c compiler--also compiles c++ etc) . But gcc will not able to compile COBOL but open COBOL compiler converts COBOL program to C program and uses gcc to compile
now a question:
Can you say that GCC can compile COBOL?
I think the answer is no? then COBOL will not able to update db2 directly.
Precompiler extracts the code between EXEC SQL and END-SQL and compiles the SQL statements and creates a binary form of SQL and gives a name .Now the COBOL source is modified by CALL to that binary file, That is the call i mentioned:
If gcc can compile COBOL program then COBOL can update DB2?
Dick it's nice to talk with you. Actually i am interested in web application development that includes Linux Apache Php and Mysql
I am discussing here about mainframe is because i love mainframe technology. Not because i need some technical support to make money easily
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William Thompson
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| cobolunni wrote: |
now a question: Can you say that GCC can compile COBOL? I think the answer is no?
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| but open COBOL compiler converts COBOL program to C program and uses gcc to compile |
then COBOL will not able to update db2 directly. |
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| Precompiler extracts the code between EXEC SQL and END-SQL and compiles the SQL statements and creates a binary form of SQL and gives a name |
Translates, not compiles!
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| Now the COBOL source is modified by CALL to that binary file |
Yea, the API you mentioned so eloquently earlier
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That is the call i mentioned:
If gcc can compile COBOL program then COBOL can update DB2?
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GCC, I thought this was a COBOL question?
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| Actually i am interested in web application development that includes Linux Apache Php and Mysql |
Good
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| I am discussing here about mainframe is because i love mainframe technology. |
Good
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| Not because i need some technical support to make money easily |
That was either very altruistic or somewhat of a personal affront. I do not know which, but I'll assume the former.
And thank you. |
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dick scherrer
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Hi cobolunni,
Well, your reply surely makes things more clear.
While this thread has enjoyed many exchanges, it was not until just now that i came to the realization that we were not all talking about IBM Mainframe COBOL 
Yes, what you say is true for some situations - some others have pre-compilers. . . It is always a good idea to mention the environment you are working in if your environment is not the same as the forum where the discussion is gong on 
Just an fyi, in addition to many years of mainframe support, i've also performed system/database admin on both UNIX and NT platforms (most of my sites are getting more and more into multi-platform). I've not yet ventured into Linux. . . If you are interested, MICRO-FOCUS COBOL works very well on both unix and nt. Opencobol will be good to learn with.
Good luck with your studies, be well, and come back to visit again  |
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cobolunni
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| William Thompson wrote: |
Translates, not compiles!
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SQL is a set of statements , Which is converted to binary format after some syntax checking-- Is that is compiling |
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William Thompson
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Regarding mainframe COBOL and SQL:
SQL is a set of statements , which is converted to COBOL format after some syntax checking-- That is translating.  |
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cobolunni
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| William Thompson wrote: |
Regarding mainframe COBOL and SQL:
SQL is a set of statements , which is converted to COBOL format after some syntax checking-- That is translating. |
SQL never converted to COBOL format, its converted to a separate binary format and using cobol CALL statement we are calling that binary package |
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William Thompson
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| cobolunni wrote: |
| SQL never converted to COBOL format, its converted to a separate binary format and using cobol CALL statement we are calling that binary package |
Right, the API....That is what the translated SQL code in the COBOL program accesses via the COBOL CALL verb.
It almost sounds like you are beginning to understand....  |
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