Hello,
I'm working with the opensource GNUCOBOL project. One of our
efforts is to provide a migration path for organizations to move
from commercial COBOL compilers to GNUCOBOL. One of the
impediments to this migration is to move from an Oracle or IBM
RDBMS solution to PostGreSQL. Most organizations are using one of
these RDBMS solutions with COBOL precompilers supplied by the
vendor and have embedded SQL in their source code. This represents
a significant challenge to any migration as there is not a COBOL
precompiler for PostGreSQL.
I would like to propose that the ECPG precompiler for C, to be
modified to accept either C or COBOL. Another option would be to
clone ECPG to work with the COBOL language. For the most of the
COBOL variable types it should not be too difficult to convert
them to C variables which would reduce the effort. Both of these
RDBMS use the syntax similar to C, EXEC SQL ..... END-EXEC, where
text between them is the actual SQL statement or variables.
Thanks for your consideration,
