what kind of Cobol and what plattform ( Acucobol ?) if yes then check
for Acucobol 4GL odbc features...
yours
Claus
Stephen Boyd wrote:

>Before you all go eeeewwww yuck who still uses COBOL, the answer is
>lots of us. My immediate goal is to try to find out if there are many
>Interbase / Firebird users who still use COBOL like we do.
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>As part of a project to integrate our legacy apps with the new stuff,
>which uses Firebird, I am developing a simulated ISAM file handler for
>Firebird. This will allow us to access the key Firebird tables with
>little or no code changes to the existing COBOL programs. There are
>going to be rather obvious performance issues with this approach but
>that is a trade off that we are willing to make for the convenience of
>not having the do a mass conversion of several thousand programs. It
>also relieves us of the necessity of having to get all of our COBOL
>programmers up to speed on SQL and transaction management and all of
>the other gotchas of relational database development.
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>If there was sufficient interest we might consider making the file
>handler generic enough to turn it into a commercial product.
>Unfortunately we can't make it open source because we had to sign a
>non-disclosure with the COBOL compiler folks before they would give us
>the docs for their external file handler interface.
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