FreeTDS Development Group

["Craig A. Berry" <craigberry AT mac.com>]

On Aug 31, 2010, at 7:32 AM, Craig A. Berry wrote:

> On Aug 30, 2010, at 10:46 PM, palani vel wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> What sort of precompiler are you using for the embedded SQL?  I  
> can't remember Sybase ever having that but it may just be a product  
> we never bought.  That's one component I don't know of a replacement  
> for (not saying there isn't one, just that I don't know of it).   
> Depending on what the precompiled code looks like, you could end up  
> in a situation where you can compile the .cobpre (or whatever it's  
> called) but not the .cob.



I think I said that backwards.  You might be able to take the  
generated COBOL code created by the precompiler, recompile it on the  
new system, and link against FreeTDS libraries instead of the now non- 
existent Sybase libraries.  You obviously could not run the  
precompiler, not without translating the image (which is theoretically  
possible).

Is this the precompiler you've been using?:

<http://manuals.sybase.com/onlinebooks/group-cnarc/cng1000e/cobguide/@Generic__BookTextView/406 
>

________________________________________
Craig A. Berry
mailto:craigberry AT mac.com

"... getting out of a sonnet is much more
 difficult than getting in."
                 Brad Leithauser