Has anyone successfully made a connection to SQL Server using a COBOL program? Hoping to make a connection so that hundreds of COBOL programs don't need to be rewritten.
Asked
Active
Viewed 1,665 times
3 Answers
4
We use Microfocus to emulate the z/os (and DB2) environment on the Windows platform - we have a couple thousand Cobol programs successfully accessing Sql Server daily to run our entire legacy system. It's not cheap though.
Scott Hodgin - Retired
- 23,119
- 2
- 21
- 43
1
There should also be ODBC version for COBOL in the download
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/connect/odbc/microsoft-odbc-driver-for-sql-server
mark mitchell
- 11
- 2
0
A few years ago I worked with a SQL Server 2000/2005 based datawarehouse that was fed from COBOL on UNIX (sorry not sure what versions/platforms exactly). We used an ODBC driver from Transoft called U/SQL and called into it from scripting within DTS (well it was a few years ago!) So I know we could pull data from COBOL into SQL, not sure if it works the other way?
This I believe is now owned by Advanced Computer Software : https://www.oneadvanced.com/products/usql/
Kev Riley
- 331
- 1
- 4