Sidetracking a bit... Oh if Oracle would only support clients after v10.2... We are a (distributed) Oracle only shop, and our mainframe accesses those databases via DB2 z/OS DDF and DB2 Federation Server. If only we could get there using a supported (and recent Oracle client)!
Anyway, that is probably why Oracle never followed up. Why update a sunsetted product... ________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Tom Ross <tmr...@stlvm20.vnet.ibm.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2017 1:35 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: COBOL integrated pre-processor, API in general >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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
