>I wouldn't necessarily assume that there is a fixed API for EXEC CICS, EXEC= > SQL, EXEC SQLIMS. It's always possible that each one of these gets some s= >ort of custom treatment from the compiler.
Bingo! There is an interface between COBOL and DB2 precompiler services, another between COBOL and CICS translator services, and a 3rd API between the COBOL compiler and IMS precompielr services. Three APIs, and I think they are only useful for IBM, unless some vendor wants to write a COBOL compiler that also does integrated coprocessing of EXEC SQL, EXEC CICS, and/or EXEC SQLIMS statements. FYI: Oracle asked us for information about these interfaces, wondering if they could do a similar thing, but they did not follow up... Cheers, TomR >> COBOL is the Language of the Future! << ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
