Thanks for reminding me of microfocus. I will look more at their efforts. Regarding the "open source GNU Cobol compiler" I assume you refer to OpenCOBOL (www.opencobol.org)?
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 7:31 PM, David Boyes <[email protected]> wrote: >> MVS 'DD' statements strike me as the moral equivalent of Unix file >> descriptors. (Same goes for CMS FILEDEF operations.) Since MVS and CMS >> now possess actual Unix file descriptors, the picture is cloudy and the water >> is muddy. > > Not really -- one more level of indirection is involved. He's trying to come > up with a way to connect a logical data source/sink in an app with external > data. You'd use a file descriptor to do the I/O to the actual data via the > task monitor once the source/sink -> data mapping was identified and the task > monitor connected it to the application. > > Other toolsets that have dealt with this concept are Microfocus COBOL, and > the open-source GNU Cobol compiler. They went the environment variable and/or > config file route. > > Given that this is a CICS clone, you're likely to be dealing with the same > set of people, so don't reinvent the wheel if you don't have to. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
