Update 6/25: A friend just ran across the NACA Cobol to Java converter. Looks quite interesting, it was used to translate 4m lines of Cobol with 100% accuracy. Here’s the NACA open source project page. The other converters I’ve seen were proprietary, and the materials were conspicuously lacking success stories and detailed example code. NACA … Read more
I can maybe help you, as 2 years ago I have accomplished exactly what you are doing now. I had to design a MySQL Datawarehouse, including the ETL system, based exclusively on files from a RM COBOL ERP application running on Linux. The application had more than 600 files, and it was still unclear how … Read more
File Transfer To transfer a Binary file from the Mainframe to Windows / *nix box you must do a Binary Transfer for a very simple reason: the Ebcdic –> Ascii program can not distinguish between binary fields and Text fields. Comp-3 value hex hex after Ascii conversion 400 x’400c’ x’200c’ x’40’ is the ebcdic space … Read more
gnucobol and gnucc both work with Db2-LUW on ubuntu linux. You can build and run gnucobol programs that use embedded-SQL. You can build and run gcc programs that use embedded-SQL via the preprocessor that comes with Db2-LUW, or which use the Db2 call level interface. Each of these products has its own set of documentation … Read more
No one here can see what program is really being executed in the LKED step for which you have the SYSLMOD override, but it’s probably IEWL (the binder, known in ancient times as the Linkage Editor). No one here can see what the attributes of your IBMUSER.RKSH.LOAD dataset are, but it must have RECFM=U. No … Read more