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Don't forget to include 'EXEC SQL'. For IBM mainframe Cobol, how many progrmams DON'T depend on the mainframe environment specific features/services? Probably z
by marktangotango 6y ago
Don't forget to include 'EXEC SQL'. For IBM mainframe Cobol, how many progrmams DON'T depend on the mainframe environment specific features/services? Probably zero or close to it. I think the environment for other vendors (Microfocus, Accucobol) is a bit more forgiving, I don't have experience with them so can't say for sure.
Another, maybe more subtle mainframe pecularity is how it maps dataset (ie file names) names to 'dsnames' (Cobol source code construct) at runtime, tied together by JCL.
- tyingq 6y agoThere's also lots of Adabase, IDMS, IMS, third party schedulers, and maybe some assembler sprinkled around. And lots of smaller problems like printing, EBCDIC centric code, record based files, etc. I assume Microfocus provides solutions for some of this.