Re: OO and IBM z series COBOL was Re: Discussions of COBOL

>>> On 10/9/2007 at 6:41 PM, in message
< GemdnaPKRcdMgpHanZ2dnUVZ_tLinZ2d@comcast
.com>, LX-i<lxi0007@netscape.net>
wrote:
> Frank Swarbrick wrote: 
>
> Do they have other database access classes?  I don't think I'd *want* to
> do EXEC SQL in a class unless I just had to...  :)

I don't know.  I guess since they support instantiating Java objects from
within COBOL you could use JDBC.

I don't understand the reasoning behind your second statement, though.  It
seems to me (without having actual tried it!) that it would be desirable to
have a database access class containing EXEC SQL statements.  That is if
you're stuck using static SQL, which I know Pete always comes out against.
(I don't have enough experience to have an opinion on that matter).

Assuming that you were working with mainframe COBOL and you, for whatever
reason, are not using JDBC for database access, what type of OO methodology
and database access would you use?  I assume (perhaps erroneously!) that
coding EXEC SQL statements in the main body of each program is not the best
OO way to go.  Then again, perhaps it is?

Frank