Convert your COBOL applications to use SQL tables (without too much effort)

dbCOBOL

Convert your COBOL applications to use SQL tables (without too much effort)

dbCOBOL is a COBOL (or C/C++) programmer's aid that quickly and cost-effectively incorporates a relational database system into existing applications.

The problem: to take an existing COBOL application and quickly convert it to use relational database tables in place of indexed-sequential files, without sacrificing performance, and do it without impacting maintainability.

Convert quickly: use automation to extract equivalent database table specifications from the COBOL code, use these to build a database and to populate it with the data from existing data files; and to insert code into the COBOL to replace I/O logic where necessary.

Without sacrificing performance: bypass vendor neutral but performance-robbing ODBC, and provide custom techniques to fully use vendor-provided features. dbCOBOL shines in its efficient COBOL START implementation using databases built with MariaDB, MyISAM, C-ISAM and other key-value stores, including NoSQL implementations.

Without impacting maintainability: modify the COBOL code as little as possible to preserve familiarity, and provide an easily understood framework for working with the relational database.

The resulting constantly current database is easily exploited using standard SQL tools, or by using dbCOBOL API functions in the COBOL or other high-level language coding.

Whether you are just interested and need more information, or you need technical assistance in realizing a project that includes our code translation, restructuring or runtime software or services, please write to support at dbcobol dot com.