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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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