Re: Thoughts on MF COBOL, Unix, and RDBMS

On Sun, 04 May 2008 11:01:51 +0100, Frederico Fonseca
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wrote:

>On Sat, 03 May 2008 01:05:28 -0500, Robert <no@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 3 May 2008 12:51:38 +1200, "Pete Dashwood"
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>>wrote:
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>>>I have some programs written in Fujitsu COBOL (generated by a tool)
that run 
>>>in a Windows environment, read ISAM and write a RDB using embedded SQL
and 
>>>ODBC.
>>>
>>>I would like to have these programs run in a Unix environment. There is
a 
>>>COBOL compiler (MicroFocus) available but it doesn't sup****t SQL, and
the 
>>>ISAM is C-ISAM. :-)
>>
>>It does sup****t SQL, either through the MF-sup****ted OpenESQL
precompiler or the Oracle
>>buggy and no longer sup****ted PRO*COBOL. You can talk through ODBC or
OCI (Oracle Call
>>Interface). 
>Robert,
>
>Can you please supply us with the link from Oracle that states that
>PRO*COBOL is no longer sup****ted?

When I called for sup****t, no one could figure out why PRO*COBOL was
cra****ng, or knew
anything about it. The answer was that text beyond column 80 makes it
crash. Oracle
do***entation doesn't say that, either.