Gentlemen, Does someone know where I can find a tutorial or material relating to Base24? I'm referring to Base24 the product by ACI. My understanding is that they use a programming language called 'TAL' which has similarities to Cobol and C. I've searched the net and I have only found job opportunities for Base24 developers but hardly...
I am working on an application that requires me to produce a COBOL copybook to define a data file. Does anyone have a good reference on how to write out a copybook? ...
When selecting a language to port COBOL programs from what language would you chose and why? I am not looking for the answer "because I am familiar with language X". I am looking for features in a language that map well to COBOL's design. Update: The programs would run the gammit to utilities, data processing, screens, etc. ...
I have two files : first file contains jobname and start time which looks like below: ZPUDA13V STARTED - TIME=00.13.30 ZPUDM00V STARTED - TIME=03.26.54 ZPUDM01V STARTED - TIME=03.26.54 ZPUDM02V STARTED - TIME=03.26.54 ZPUDM03V STARTED - TIME=03.26.56 and the second file contains jobname and Endtime which looks like below: ZPUDA13V E...
Hello, I am creating an SSIS package to read in unpacked data from a series of copybook files. I am unsure of the correct interpretation of the following field definitions and was hoping someone would know: FIELD-NAME-1 PIC S9(15)V9(3) COMP-3. FIELD-NAME-2 PIC S9(3)V9(8) COMP-3. FIELD-NAME-3 PIC S9(3)V9(6) COMP-3....
Is there a way to read cobol data in a Java program? More concretely I'm confronted with the following case: I have a file with fixed length records of data. The data definition is done as Cobol copybooks. What I think of is a library which taking into account the copybooks would be able to read those records. Ideally it should be pos...
i have some dat files for powercobol starting with an RMKF tag at the begining of the file anyone know of a way to read them? ...
I have an existing website/application that uses COBOL-CGI where the COBOL app creates the html pages by filling in data using placeholders. I now want to create a rails site that in addition to using its own db, should also call the external application to retrieve various information. Can this application still be called using cgi? I...
I have a Java stack (Tomcat, etc) and I need to send messages from a mainframe running COBOL to the Java end. Any of the open source queues available can do that? ...
I'm completely new to COBOL, but I'd like to take a look at the different options for GUI programming on Windows. I don't really like Tcl/Tk, though. Is there some resource for developing a Windows GUI in COBOL in the same manner that one would develop a GUI in C? Thanks! ...
Hello, Can anyone point me at a way to talk to SQL Server from Fujitsu COBOL? Event talking to COM / ActiveX would be a start. Many Thanks Neil ...
Hi All, I just want to know how you upload datasets specifying its characeteristics? E.G. using the command quote site lrecl=500 recfm=fb Well, the command was accepted when I tried to use it, but the problem is that when I tried to upload the file using the command 'send' ftp hangs up, and definitley closes the session. This is the s...
I want to read the lines out of STDIN (aka SYSIN) in COBOL. For now I just want to print them out so that I know I've got them. From everything I'm reading it looks like this should work: IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. PROGRAM-ID. APP. ENVIRONMENT DIVISION. INPUT-OUTPUT SECTION. FILE-CONTROL. SELECT SYSIN ASSIGN TO DA-S-SYSIN OR...
I am looking for a static analysis tool for Python, Ruby, Sql, Cobol, Perl, PL/SQL, SQL similar to find bugs and check style. I am looking for calculating the line count, identify bugs during the development, and enforcing coding standard. ...
I am a Java developer (mostly) and I would like to learn some cobol/mainframe. Not for actual doing much coding, but to better understand cobol/mainframe developers. The problem is last time I checked there wasn't a mainframe under my desk. ...
I had written simple cobol program in eclipse. For the first time i am using eclipse for cobol programs. i want to know the steps followed to compile and run that simple cobol program. ...
How can this code be converted to COBOL? Result := GetSysColor(Color and $000000FF) The value types are DWORD, I guess it is a bitwise operation. ...
ORIGINAL Q: I'm wondering if anyone has had experience of migrating a large Cobol/PL1 codebase to Java? How automated was the process and how maintainable was the output? How did the move from transactional to OO work out? Any lessons learned along the way or resources/white papers that may be of benefit would be appreciated. ED...
I have a number of flags defined (by a header file far outside my control) that look something like this: * * OPTVAL field for IPV6_ADDR_PREFERENCES_FLAGS * 01 IPV6-ADDR-PREFERENCES-FLAGS PIC X(4). * * IPV6_ADDR_PREFERENCES_FLAGS mappings * 77 IPV6-PREFER-SRC-HOME PIC X(4) VALUE X'00000001'. 77 IPV6-PRE...
I'm working in a corporate environment where the mindset is hugely dominated by people who started programming with COBOL IMS and CICS. Today most of them program with more modern languages like Java. But If you look at their code and design decisions not much has changed methods many screens long a huge amount of global variables or t...