Re: Developer 2000 / Cobol question

Not sure what information you got, but Developer 2000 doesn't speak any COBOL. Developer 2000 (Forms) provides a client/server interface to an Oracle database. Forms run on Windows/NT platforms, and allow users to view and update data in the database. Cobol doesn't fit into the picture.

If your client has existing COBOL programs, they can be modified to read/write Oracle database tables instead of your VMS data files by converting them to Oracle's Pro-Cobol. You would need to rewrite all of the file I/O, converting them to Oracle database SQL commands. I understand this is a lot less difficult than rewriting all COBOL programs in Oracle's PL/SQL language.

Steve Cosner
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In article <35a22680.0_at_news.greennet.net>,   "AcsAdmin" <acsadmin_at_greennet.net> wrote:
> I have a customer who wants to use their existing VAX Cobol and Dibol
> programs with an Oracle backend that runs on Open VMS. I have been told (by
> Oracle) that their existing programs can use the developer 2000 tools in
> order to get connectivity between the existing Vax programs and the new
> Oracle Database.
>
> First, I am wondering if that information is accurate. The person from
> Oracle sounded a little shaky when explaining the technology and I am
> wondering if he was correct. Second, if the Developer 2000 tools will do
> the job, how involved is it to make VAX cobol and dibol programs talk to an
> Oracle server?

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