Babette,
If they are a Cobol shop then there is nothing wrong with using Pro*Cobol.
I disagree with your statement about using PL/SQL for
the business logic. I personally think you should put as much of that in
the database.
Rick
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Babette,
The decision really comes down to the organization. If they see themselves
as *never* leaving the Cobol arena, and they have an ample supply of Cobol
programmers, then they should stay with it.
What you could do is to make friends with the applications people, and show
them how PL/SQL works. What you will find is that they will take to PL/SQL
like a fish to water. And pretty soon, more and more PL/SQL packages will
be written that are simply called by the Cobol programs. Cobol would then
be a simple entry point to the database - able to interface nicely with the
operating system (reading and writing flat files, producing reports and
forms), while the majority of the logic may be written in PL/SQL.
Maybe, just maybe, the person making the decision see's no benefit to using
PL/SQL. And given your local labor market, maybe he's right!
Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional
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"Khedr, Waleed" wrote:
>
> Cobol! Again!:(
>
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>
> I just found out today that we have a major development initiative that
is
> starting and they are planning on using Pro*Cobol to develop the
> application. (my head is still shaking in disbelief!!!)
>
> So we will have a Java front-end, invoking MQ series that will go across
to
> the mainframe for MQ series to invoke Pro*Cobol programs that will then
do
> the processing (accessing data and doing calculations) and then return
data.
>
> If anyone has been in this or a similar situation, please help.
> I need some really good arguments as to why we should put the business
logic
> into PL/SQL instead of Pro*Cobol.
>
> I understand the reason we are using Oracle is that the director has 15
> years experience with it and loves it. Aaargh!!!
>
> thanks
> Babette
>
May I play the devil's advocate? Even if Pro*Cobol seems to be a weird
choice, there may be a case for not coding the logic in PL/SQL :
database portability. I have heard recently of a very, very, very big
company dumping Oracle in favour of DB2. Reason ? Cost. I guess that in
such a case, porting a Pro*Cobol program is easier than PL/SQL.
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Oriole Software
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