With a JDBC driver and a bit of JAVA code..you could use the COBOL/JAVA procedure BCDBATCH to help tie the two together. Did a quick scan and there appear to be at least few JDBC drivers.
Rob Rob Schramm Senior Systems Consultant Imperium Group On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 1:18 AM, David Crayford <dcrayf...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 25/10/2013 12:28 PM, Tony Harminc wrote: > >> On 24 October 2013 23:49, Ze'ev Atlas <zatl...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >>> About a previous post, the endianess should not be a big issue to deal >>> with once the two sides of the protocol are well defined. The EBCDIC issue >>> is a make or break issue. MongoDB works decidedly with UTDF-8 and I need >>> COBOL to natively view a string as UTF-8. Does the current incarnation of >>> COBOL (and perhaps PL/I) have a native UTF-8 string type. If not, then I >>> will abandon the whole project. >>> >> I'm doubtless blowing (or something) into the wind again, but this >> sounds like a place for UTF-EBCDIC. Which is easily translated to and >> from UTF-8 if that's what goes on the wire. (I'm assuming your UTDF-8 >> was just a typo.) Presumably it would be a good start if COBOL could >> see and manipulate the subset of UTF-EBCDIC that is EBCDIC strings >> that would live as UTF-8 in the database. Then when COBOL learns to >> handle UTF-EBCDIC, it could handle the complete UNICODE set. >> > > The wire protocol is binary. The UTF-8 requirement for strings in the BSON > spec > http://bsonspec.org/#/**specification<http://bsonspec.org/#/specification> > . > I really like the look of BSON. It's like google protocol buffers but more > flexible. XML is the pleated khakis of the document markup world. > > > http://www.unicode.org/**reports/tr16/<http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr16/> >> >> Tony H. >> >> ------------------------------**------------------------------** >> ---------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**---------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
