FreeTDS Development Group

["Jackson, Craig" <Craig.Jackson AT cengage.com>]

In theory, yes.

You can compile the programs with Freetds like you would handle interfacing 
Cobol to any other C-based library.  I suspect you may have to translate some 
data structures.  It communicates with traditional "C" strings, not VMS 
descriptors, but as far as I'm aware the Sybase-supplied libraries for Alpha 
and VAX did as well.  (I know that's how they worked in C.  I'm just unsure 
about the Cobol interface.)

I'm assuming that you're recompiling the sources, because Sybase never 
released libraries for Itanium.  Running them through the binary translator 
would be a different problem, and probably less likely to succeed.  (I know 
the Sybase libraries for Alpha were full of alignment faults.)

Craig Jackson 

-----Original Message-----
From: freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org 
[mailto:freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of palani vel
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 11:46 PM
To: FreeTDS Development Group
Subject: [freetds] Can FreeTDS be used to connect Sybase from Cobol on OpenVMS

Hi Good Morning, 
 
I have a question. Can you please help me out?.
 
We have existing HP Cobol programs on OpenVMS having embedded SQLs and 
connecting to Sybase DB on Unix using Sybase Open Client libraries.
 
Can FreeTDS be used to replace the Sybase Open Client libraries on OpenVMS 
(running on HP Integrity servers) for Cobol? 

 
Please note:    Sybase is no longer supporting Open Client on OpenVMS.
 
Thanks in advance J
 
Regards,
Palanivel


      
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