RE: New development in Cobol or PL/SQL - please help

From: Khedr, Waleed <Waleed.Khedr_at_FMR.COM>
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 15:13:42 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005051FB.20021116151342@fatcity.com>

Cobol! Again!:(

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Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 5:24 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

I just found out today that we have a major development initiative that is starting and they are planning on using Pro*Cobol to develop the application. (my head is still shaking in disbelief!!!)

So we will have a Java front-end, invoking MQ series that will go across to the mainframe for MQ series to invoke Pro*Cobol programs that will then do the processing (accessing data and doing calculations) and then return data.

If anyone has been in this or a similar situation, please help. I need some really good arguments as to why we should put the business logic into PL/SQL instead of Pro*Cobol.

I understand the reason we are using Oracle is that the director has 15 years experience with it and loves it. Aaargh!!!

thanks
Babette

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