>It's not much fun accessing Mongo in C let alone COBOL. Agree My language of choice is Perl which flaws with that stuff and I am working on my JavaScript skills. However, what drives me is frustration. Whenever I do a mainframe project, I see how much I miss the other side's features and then I look how to bring those features in.
I may need to invent a way to represent complex key value structures in COBOL which is a challenge on its own (unless somebody has already done it.) The simplest solution would be a two dimensional table of Z type strings, but that would not allow in a simple way for hierarchies. I guess I'll have to develop a type and the functionality to handle it. About a previous post, the endianess should not be a big issue to deal with once the two sides of the protocol are well defined. The EBCDIC issue is a make or break issue. MongoDB works decidedly with UTDF-8 and I need COBOL to natively view a string as UTF-8. Does the current incarnation of COBOL (and perhaps PL/I) have a native UTF-8 string type. If not, then I will abandon the whole project. ZA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
