From: "Ralph \"PJPizza\" Siegler" <pjpizza@...>
Date: 2006-06-17T05:58:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and Cobol

On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 05:33:36PM +0900, Pete Palmer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The company I'm working for at present has everything written in 
> acuCOBOL with flat indexed files. They're trying to migrate to Oracle 
> but that's a long way off. Is there any way to access these data files 
> from Ruby or would anyone have the expertise to create such an 
> interface? I wouldn't know where to start but there's so much more I 
> could do for them if Ruby had access to that mine of information!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> Pete
> 
> 
> 
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> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>

Hi Pete,

I've written similar things for Microfocus COBOL, using calls to  C API
 to small COBOL program to acess ISAM data, but what's much easier
 is to just write small COBOL program that reads and writes from socket 
 or pipe to talk to external programs,  Then you just basically send
 and receive all data as strings.




Ralph "PJPizza" Siegler