CALL - multiple programs at the same time

[SiouxCityElvis]

Can RMCOBOL-85 handle calling many programs at the same time in LINUX? In other words, can I have one program kick off two programs that will process at the same time, or would it have to use a CALL statement to a script that would in turn have 2 runcobol commands in it and therefore have 2 programs run at the same time?

Thanks in advance.
-David

 

[k5tm]

a CALL statement to a script that would in turn have 2 runcobol commands in it

That one.

This is something for which you want to use the shell.

Tom Morrison

http://www.liant.com

 

[SiouxCityElvis]

Great! Thanks.

 

[fredericofonseca]

But don´t forget that each one of those will use one Runtime license count!!. I had a customer that had a software doing that 4-6 times for each "user", and he got mad when he had to buy two 256 licences instead of a 64 users that he really needed.

 

[coboltechcie]

I need to find what gui to use to write some programs on my pc using cobol & a gui interface , can someone offer me advice..Thank you

 

[WMK]

This probably belongs in a THREAD by itself - but some possibilities:

1) AcuCOBOL has "native" GUI syntax - using Accept/Display

2) Fujitsu offers PowerCOBOL *or* its COBOL for .NET has interfaces to "standard" Windows facilitities

3) Micro Focus offers Dialog Systems (or you can use OO to interface with Windows methods/objects)

For almost ANY Windows COBOL compiler you can use sp2 (from Flexus) or Gui ScreenIO (from Norcom). These two allow you to keep "procedural" type logic - but get GUI results.