Home > Archive > Cobol > May 2006 > Re: acucobol
You are viewing an archived Text-only version of the thread.
To view this thread in it's original format and/or if you want to reply to
this thread please [click here]
|
|
| James J. Gavan 2006-02-08, 6:55 pm |
| Daniele_64 wrote:
> Good morning,
> Is available one tutor (on line, book, faq, ecc..) for one (me)
> who want move the very first step with this compiler ?
>
> Thank's
>
> Daniele
>
Daniele,
Not likely you will find anything specific to ACUCOBOL that you haven't
already found at their own site. Is it Procedural COBOL you want to get
into or are you interested in Acu specific features like GUI-ing (Windows) ?
Book-wise I would recommend Thane Hubbell's "Teach Yourself COBOL in 24
Hours" available from amazon.com if you can't get it at a local tech
bookshop.
On-line - do Google searches - I just did following search key
"COBOL-EXAMPLES" - note I used a hyphen to join the two words, making
the search more specific. Use other search keywords with 'COBOL' in
them, and should give you references to a number of universities with
COBOL examples. When you are comfortable you can them go looking at
COBOL compiler vendor sites for more sophisticated examples.
University of Limerick (Irish Republic) has both tutorials and simple
demo programs :-
http://www.csis.ul.ie/COBOL/
For more background information go to the COBOL FAQ :-
http://home.comcast.net/~wmklein/FAQ/COBOLFAQ.htm
Good luck !
Jimmy, Calgary AB
| |
| Daniele_64 2006-02-18, 7:55 am |
| Good afternoon,
>Is it Procedural COBOL you want to get into or are you interested in Acu
>specific features like GUI-ing (Windows) ?
J need to read one db files created with one application written in
acucobol.
J have not any experience with cobol .... so the wok will be so
hard.........
> Book-wise I would recommend Thane Hubbell's "Teach Yourself COBOL in 24
> Hours"
J will buy this book .... and j hope to move my first steep with cobol withn
24 w s !!!!!!!!
J need somthing like this, i windows:
Opend a DB (but j don't know the structure)
With a passed string get the related record (if exist)
Read one field and sored the value in a text file
Close and repeat the cycle.
If there is something who let me to acces to this db with delphi j have
solved the problem .... but all delphi users
sed me who there are not any chance to access to this db with delphi !!!!!
> Good luck !
Thank's, j really need it !!!!
Hope to read you again, Daniele
PS : Sorry for my bad english
| |
| James J. Gavan 2006-02-18, 6:55 pm |
| Daniele_64 wrote:
> Good afternoon,
>
>
>
> J need to read one db files created with one application written in
> acucobol.
> J have not any experience with cobol .... so the wok will be so
> hard.........
>
>
>
> J will buy this book .... and j hope to move my first steep with cobol withn
> 24 ws !!!!!!!!
> J need somthing like this, i windows:
> Opend a DB (but j don't know the structure)
> With a passed string get the related record (if exist)
> Read one field and sored the value in a text file
> Close and repeat the cycle.
>
> If there is something who let me to acces to this db with delphi j have
> solved the problem .... but all delphi users
> sed me who there are not any chance to access to this db with delphi !!!!!
>
>
>
> Thank's, j really need it !!!!
>
> Hope to read you again, Daniele
>
> PS : Sorry for my bad english
Daniele,
Take it as read, your English is *considerably* better than my Italian :-)
Not quite clear what route you want to take given above. Do you in fact
need to learn COBOL at all, or are you just interested in getting data
from the DataBase to be used with another language. Are you already
proficient in another language and just want to access the data bringing
it into your own regularly used language.
What is the name of the Database we are talking about and are you
already familiar with use of DBs ? I would think all database software
has the ability to EXPORT to a text file (CSV = Comma Separated
Variables) - are you familiar with the term.
For background you can also go to the following Home Page, and looks
like you can select for translations into Italian. You can select
'Samples' and as a search I entered 'SQL' which gave me Acu references
to Database usage.
http://www.acucorp.com/company/locations/
Naturally I know the name Delphi - but I am not familiar with what it
does in total - searched and see it has a Database feature. Are you in
fact working in Delphi with a database ? If that's the case, dependent
upon the DB used in the AcuCOBOL application you should be able to
EXPORT the data, (*without* using COBOL) and IMPORT the data into the
Delphi DB - that might be your solution.
Jimmy
| |
| Frederico Fonseca 2006-02-18, 6:55 pm |
| On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 14:25:26 +0100, "Daniele_64"
<daniele.fare@libero.it> wrote:
snip
>If there is something who let me to acces to this db with delphi j have
>solved the problem .... but all delphi users
>sed me who there are not any chance to access to this db with delphi !!!!!
What version of Delphy are you using? if one that allows access to ADO
(e.g. the more recents DO), and depending on the version of Acucobol
you have the files on (do a vutil -info on the file), then you may be
able to use ADO to access the files.
More info required, but regardless of that your delphi guys are wrong,
as there will be others ways to do it even if ADO does not work.
Frederico Fonseca
ema il: frederico_fonseca at syssoft-int.com
| |
| James J. Gavan 2006-02-18, 9:55 pm |
| Frederico Fonseca wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 14:25:26 +0100, "Daniele_64"
> <daniele.fare@libero.it> wrote:
> snip
>
>
>
> What version of Delphy are you using? if one that allows access to ADO
> (e.g. the more recents DO), and depending on the version of Acucobol
> you have the files on (do a vutil -info on the file), then you may be
> able to use ADO to access the files.
>
> More info required, but regardless of that your delphi guys are wrong,
> as there will be others ways to do it even if ADO does not work.
>
Frederico,
I had second thoughts after replying to his message. It could go on an
on, so let's check :-
Daniele,
1. Are you using Delphi Database. As Frederico asks, which Version # ?
2. Do you have the AcuCOBOL compiler - Version Number please ?
3. Do you have the source of the COBOL programs - that is, can you bring
one up in a text editor and see what it looks like ?
4. Does the application use COBOL *files* or is it using a DataBase
product - in case that is not clear COBOL files are not the same thing
as a Database as you are used to, and are accessed *directly* from COBOL
standard code.
5. Give us any other information which you think could help us.
I can assure you, you will get the right answers from Frederico once we
know your specific situation.
Jimmy
| |
|
| Dear Daniele
What would you like to know
quote:
Originally posted by James J. Gavan
Daniele_64 wrote:
> Good morning,
> Is available one tutor (on line, book, faq, ecc..) for one (me)
> who want move the very first step with this compiler ?
>
> Thank's
>
> Daniele
>
Daniele,
Not likely you will find anything specific to ACUCOBOL that you haven't
already found at their own site. Is it Procedural COBOL you want to get
into or are you interested in Acu specific features like GUI-ing (Windows) ?
Book-wise I would recommend Thane Hubbell's "Teach Yourself COBOL in 24
Hours" available from amazon.com if you can't get it at a local tech
bookshop.
On-line - do Google searches - I just did following search key
"COBOL-EXAMPLES" - note I used a hyphen to join the two words, making
the search more specific. Use other search keywords with 'COBOL' in
them, and should give you references to a number of universities with
COBOL examples. When you are comfortable you can them go looking at
COBOL compiler vendor sites for more sophisticated examples.
University of Limerick (Irish Republic) has both tutorials and simple
demo programs :-
http://www.csis.ul.ie/COBOL/
For more background information go to the COBOL FAQ :-
http://home.comcast.net/~wmklein/FAQ/COBOLFAQ.htm
Good luck !
Jimmy, Calgary AB
|
|
|
|
|