On Jul 16, 2:10 pm, jmoore <[email protected]> wrote: > Does anyone have any example code of Cobol programs that were > converted to PL/sql procedures/packages? Our company is trying to > convert programs to pl/sql and they really haven't addressed many of > the challenges. First being batch programs that display/accept data > from the user. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I certianly hope > there is at least one dinosaur like me in this forum.
Big Dino-roar from here. Can I ask why you would want to do such a horrible thing to yourself? Seriously, why would you convert cobol to PL/SQL of all things? There are lots of perfectly good cobol compilers out there and Oracle plays quite nicely with them. I know that if someone came up to me with the idea of rewriting a bunch of cobol programs in pl/sql I would want a very convincing business case for the project. Even if you are rehosting from a mainframe to (for instance) a linux VM there is still no good reason to do what you are thinking about unless someone has a religious aversion to cobol. If you are short on cobol programmers then I would suggest that training one of your existing ones would be cheaper than converting anything but the most trivial program to pl/sql. I would like to hear more about the thinking behind this project because you have bitten off some nastiness. I do have to say that I don't understand one thing ... in my experience users don't interact with batch programs, that is kind of the point of them. Or am I missing something? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Oracle PL/SQL" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Oracle-PLSQL?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
