I will look carefully at the Java option and JNI, but my inclination (as an old timer) is to adapt the C driver rather. Working directly with C subroutines from COBOL, without a Java layer seems to me to be more natural, but again, I am an old timer and I do not really know Java. If I need extensive additional functionality, not available in the driver, than that could be a reason to do Java (and learn that stuff at long last; I love working with languages that I don't know.)
Can somebody please point me to the documentation of JNI and interfacing Java and COBOL. I did not yet look at the N type and the limitation that have been mentioned here (only 80 characters) would be a make or break. If indeed I cannot reasonably deal with (virtually) unlimited UTF-8 strings then I will not even start the porting project. My time and resources are limited! ZA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
