Re: COBOL Compiler for Windows

On 04/29/08 01:44 am, Richard wrote:
> On Apr 29, 4:11 pm, Graham Hobbs <gho...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> Further questions please..
>> Do the MS and Fujitsu compilers sup****t VSAM KSDS files? What about
> 
> What do you mean by 'sup****t' ?  You are unlikely to find a VSAM KSDS
> file on Windows. Windows is not MVS or zOS. It does, however, have
> Cobol INDEXED SEQUENTIAL files.

The IBM workstation compilers [while you may not like the prices], do 
allow use of emulated VSAM files.  These programs can be directly ****ted 
[via just a recompile] between the mainframe/workstation assuming you 
don't intentionally use features that are unique to the platform.

>> DB2 access, CICS access, guess I'm asking EXEC CICS suchandsuch
> 
> Winows does not normally run a CICS service. CICS is not part of
> Cobol, though normally Cobol programs are used in a CICS service.

I have not looked lately, but certainly there used to be workstation 
based CICS packages that would run the programs compiled by workstation 
compilers.

>> and
>> EXEC SQL suchandsuch.
> 
> SQL service is also not part of Cobol. Most SQL is achieved with a
> different product, such as a preprocessor, that converts the EXEC SQL
> lines into Cobol CALLs and such.

Well, not quite true.  The Enterprise COBOL [and PL/I] compilers have 
integrated the processing of CICS and DB2 'EXEC ...' statements into the 
compiler.  While you can still use the preprocessors, they are no longer 
required.

> Fujitsu version 3 does not include (AFAIK) SQL. Later versions of
> Fujitsu do sup****t ODBC access through a limited set of EXEC SQL
> statements. You can always write the appropriate CALL statements.
I have no knowledge of what Fujitsu provides.