How to access to Oracle Data Base, Informix, Microsoft SQL Server, SYBASE, MySQL without needing modifying its Cobol applications?
Today the companies that have a great investment in the development of Cobol applications, can take them in transparent form, to relational databases using standard Cobol syntax. Obvious this only can provide advantages.
The existing applications only increase their value and there is necessity of the no risk of invetir in new development; and at the same time the power and flexibility of RDBMS atmospheres benefit from.
Only the description of the archives (FD, Cases out Description) Cobol is necessary to work with Data Base.
The user can use the power of the RDBMS without having to hope by new developments, which still need to be verified.
Easy and surprising powerful
Cobol Access+
it is very easy to use. This one replaces the traditional file system of Cobol, consequently the applications Cobol using COBOL ACCESS+ are much more flexible and easy to maintain that when sentences SQL are added to them. As simple as…
To accede from a Cobol application to a data base, with COBOL ACCESS+ is extremely simple.
Step 1: to create " Cobol" dictionary; , which contains the description of the data base and its elements. COBOL ACCESS+ includes Cob2did for this phase.
Finally the Cobol archives must be leidos and transferred to the corresponding tables of the relational database, which is obtained writing a simple Cobol program reads the present file and records the new file " tabla". This is everything what it is required to integrate Cobol applications with the power of Relational Data Base.