Re: Help Setting up Pro*Cobol on Linux

What version?

There seems to be no official support for Pro*Cobol on linux with 9i. In 10g it is supported.

Maybe the generic information in
http://oraclesvca2.oracle.com/docs/html/A97297_01/title.htm can help you.

Search for Pro*Cobol in the documentation library, and you will find quite some information. The Administrator's reference for Unix Systems doc can help, and probably the Pro*Cobol Precompiler Programmer's Guide as well.

Maybe precompiling on another platform works, but I wouldn't rely on that for production use. It will make the porting issue quite nasty, if you don't know whether problems are caused by the port itself or incompatability issues between platforms for the Pro*Cobol pre-compiler.

HTH, Best regards,

Carel-Jan Engel

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On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 19:25, Chris Hoover wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I need some help getting the Pro*Cobol pre-compiler setup and properly
> running on Linux. I am investigating porting our PostgreSQL DB to
> Oracle, and need to be able to compile the Cobol application to run
> against Oracle. I have installed the linux client and had it install
> the programmer package, so I have Pro*Cobol installed on our test box.
>
> I have looked for documentation, but there does not seem to be any
> unix/linux specific documentation out there. Our Cobol vendor has
> stated that we must precompile on linux since our application is
> hosted on linux servers. Is this true? It would seem that the Oracle
> precompiler should not care what platform you are precompiling on.
>
> Anyway, I'm a DBA and not a Cobol programmer, so I am in strange
> waters. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Chris
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