COBOL in the .NET and WSED 2

[GarethKruse]

Hello,

how can I program with COBOL in the MS .NET and IBM WSED 5.0 environments?

Besides, these development environments are new to me and first I want to get a general knowledge about the usage of them. Is there an integrated program in these environments introducing the newcomers to the development environment?

 

[Dimandja]

Hi GarethKruse,

It looks like you need to understand these two environments before you can try to use COBOL with them.

A search on MS .NET or IBM WSED 5.0 brings up several links.

As for COBOL and MS .NET, try:

http://www.adtools.com/info/whitepaper/net.html

And COBOL and WebSphere:

http://www.microfocus.com/mfnewsletter/20020801_008.asp

Dimandja

 

[3gm]

For the .NET environment, I'd start with acquiring MS Visual Studio .NET. You can gain some experience with the .NET environment developing Visual Basic or C# programs (assuming you are reasonably fluent in one of those languages).

If I understand correctly, you then need to acquire a COBOL tool that works directly with .NET. Fujitsu was the first to announce COBOL for .NET. I don't know about MicroFocus. AcuCORP is not going to play directly in .NET for now but with "integrate" with that environment through vendor-provided interface routines.

3gm