Re: New development in Cobol or PL/SQL - please help

If I understood correctly your whole application will be on the mainframe with web front end to interface with the users. We are a mainframe (mostly) company and we have dozens of Cobol programmer on the mainframe and NO sql programmer. (I have to fight the open system group to get at least ONE sql programmer so the DBA team will not have to write whatever sql programs the APPLICATIONS need).
So a new project on the mainframe will definitely be in Cobol. I still do not understand why they want Oracle on the mainframe. We are working with ADABAS and get very good result. Most other mainframe that I know use DB2. I have not heard of anyone using Oracle on mainframe (at least under IBM MVS).

Yechiel Adar
Mehish
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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
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