McKown, John wrote: [snip]
I was thinking of CGIs. I was also thinking of the HTTPD server. We don't have Websphere. Perhaps Websphere has things in it to make developing CGI-like applications in COBOL easier. When we tried to do CGI in COBOL a few years ago, it was very difficult due to not being able to use "stdin" and "stdout" directly from COBOL code, using COBOL verbs. I haven't looked at this since installing Enterprise COBOL, so maybe it is easier now.
Yes, well you can "Accept input_area from keyboard-in" to read from stdin (in the special-names paragraph say "sysin is keyboar-in.") And your basic "display" statement sends stuff to stdout. Nothing hard in this. <ad, of course> We cover working with stdin and stdout from COBOL, Assembler, PL/I, and C using native constructs and C functions in our 3 day course "Developing Applicaions in z/OS UNIX". We also cover accessing MVS files and HFS files from these languages, compiling, assembling, binding, and running under the shell, using "make", dynamically invoking programs stored with long, case-sensitive names stored in the HFS, and more. Details at: http://www.trainersfriend.com/UNIX_and_Web_courses/u520descr.htm Be sure to follow the links to the course objectives and the detailed topical outline for more information. </ad> Kind regards, -Steve Comstock
Plus, I'm trying to get my C compiler back <grin>. Not likely as I'm the only C literate person here on the z/OS side. The Windows side might have some C people. Although from what I know of them, they are all VB.Net people now.
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