Extract All SQL statements from a COBOL Db2 program

sivakumar somala · New User Joined: 26 Sep 2007 Posts: 10 Location: Mumbai

Hi All,

Could you please suggest if it is possible to extract all the SQL statements from a COBOL DB2 program without compiling it.

Many thanks in advance.

Regards,
Siva

expat · Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 2:10 pm

Is this specifically REXX related, or that you couldn't be asked to put this in the DB2 forum ?

sivakumar somala · New User Joined: 26 Sep 2007 Posts: 10 Location: Mumbai

Hi,

Firstly, thanks for your response.

Either of it will do. Wanted to check if there is any rexx snipet or any other way, where we can extract all the SQL/Cursor declarations statements between EXEC SQL and END-EXEC statements in a given COBOL DB2 program.

Thanks in anticipation.

Regards,
Siva

Marso · Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 4:55 pm

Will you EXEC this tool or will it run as an EDIT MACRO ?

In the first case, you have to scan the cobol program line by line from top to bottom, discard comment lines and look for 'EXEC SQL' and 'END-EXEC' strings.

In the second case, you can use the FIND command to jump to the 'EXEC SQL' lines.

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 7:52 pm

all the sql statements can be extracted from the db2 tables.
too lazy to look myself, but there is a db2 table, that contains rows for each program, the program name is part of the key.

kkielak · New User Joined: 28 Dec 2013 Posts: 1 Location: Poland

Do you still need this? I can create small REXX script for that ...