CGI/COBOL

[Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxx]

 >> Has anyone coded to the C-APIs using COBOL?

Yup!

 >> If so, is it any different than using RPG?

The major difference is that you have no prototyping support in COBOL so you
have to "hand-craft" each CALL .... RETURNING and have to deal with a couple of
issues yourself to a greater degree than in RPG. For example there is no
equivalent to options(*String) so you have to null terminate any character
strings yourself - similarly there is no equivalent to %STR to dereference
strings.

We should probably move this to the COBOL400-L if you want to discuss it more.

Your friend can find an IFS example at Rochester's Tech Studio web site .

PS. Is this a "friend" in the "Dear Abbey" sense is it? You can come out of the
COBOL closet here you know you're among friends ;-)


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