Cobol

Wildcat COBOL
Has anyone tried this COBOL compiler? It's an open-source COBOL compiler for .NET and MONO, still under development. http://www.sorn.net/projects/wildcat-cobol-compiler/ It's a free download, so it should be worth a look. -- http://arnold.trembley.home.att.net/ ... 10 Nov 2007 08:28

System Conversion - An Overview
Considering HansJ situation..... and with such a magnitude of requirements. Woh! System language conversion is not my best solution. Go to the Cobol vendor who provided the solutions and re-engineer. If business logic is needed to be changed... then start with a "new" language platform "you think" is best and IT ... 10 Nov 2007 08:28

COBOL Error Handling (was: What MF says about ROUNDED(was:Cobol Myth Busters
>>> On 9/21/2007 at 10:48 PM, in message <L81Ji.49884$TK1.22637(a)fe04.news.easynews.com>, William M. Klein<wmklein(a)nospam.netcom.com> wrote: "Frank Swarbrick" <Frank.Swarbrick(a)efirstbank.com> wrote in message news:46F4154F.6F0F.0085.0(a)efirstbank.com... On 9/21/2007 at 5:01 PM, in message <snip> Fr... 24 Sep 2007 12:23

COBOL "non-myth" confirmed - Index and subscripts (MF on Windows)
On Sep 14, 4:02 pm, "William M. Klein" <wmkl...(a)nospam.netcom.com> wrote: And one final note, Robert never claimed that Micro Focus documented Indices as faster than Subscripts (for their product). He only included this as a "legacy" belief. It may well be that on particular machines with particular imp... 28 Sep 2007 09:03

Help with Tcal
Hi! Anybody knows where I can find a guide or manual about programming in Tcal (a Cobol like language). I need it to work with an old handheld barcode scanner: the Telxon PTC-910L. ... 20 Jun 2007 11:24

Web Services and COBOL (Fairly long post, but I don't have time to write a proper article on it)
I've had a couple of private mails after responding publicly here to a request for help with accessing Web Services from COBOL. Here is a VERY brief summary of the situation: (Some parts of the following are reproduced from some documentation I wrote and attached to the example COBOL code, as a Fujitsu NetCOB... 2 Jun 2007 08:41

Microfocus Cobol "SLEEP" routine
Hello. Is there a way in MF Cobol to pause program execution (sleep) for, let's say, 5 minutes??? My workaround is to call the AIX command "sleep 300". I need a routine in Cobol itself so I may vary the time to pause in some programs. Thanks in advance. ... 17 May 2007 04:17

COBOL dynamic allocation (putenv) of output-file won't release extra space when closed
On 12 Mar, 18:08, "William M. Klein" <wmkl...(a)nospam.netcom.com> wrote: I am checking with some IBM sources on this, but one POSSIBLE solution would be to use an SMS storage class that automatically does what you want. (I think SMS can handle RLSE - but I *know* it can put your dataset on "temporary" storage... 3 May 2007 12:28

Conversion of data & associated logic from ISAM to RDB
We are using Micro Focus Net Express 4.0 and Microsoft SQL Server 2000. The concepts/examples we are seeking however can be more generic, i.e., not necessarily shown within COBOL source code per se. Right now we have two realized problems, both of which appear to stem from our mutual and still-thriving ignorance... 18 Apr 2007 09:12

How would you do this?
to: comp.lang.cobol *and* IBM-MAIN IBM has (relatively) recently created an LE callable service, CEE3INF, that returns a "32-bit map" with information about what environment a program is running in. See: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/CEEA3170/2.2.5.9 Now, my question is how ... 13 Mar 2007 11:34