Re: Can FreeTDS be used to connect Sybase from Cobol on OpenVMS
"Jackson, Craig" <[email protected]>
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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: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 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 _______________________________________________ FreeTDS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/freetds