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Re: GnuCOBOL in the press
By: Robert Doerfler to docdwarf@panix.com on Thu Jul 04 2024 08:32 pm

When I talk about myself, I often mention that I wanted to learn COBOL.
From time to time, I got distracted by other things, but fortunately,
there are now countless opportunities to learn COBOL, and I assume others are also interested.

I had the opportunity to learn COBOL in high school in the late 80's. When
I went to college, I though I would take it as an easy course and ended up changing it to Pass/Fail. I just lost interest.

Wish I would not have done that.

For example, I can recommend the following online course with GnuCOBOL, which would be a good start:

https://www.linkedin.com/learning/topics/cobol

I'll have to find the class, and see if I can get GnuCOBOL to work on my VPS or
RaspPi, and see if I can write some COBOL programs.

When it comes to mainframes, IBM offers countless opportunities,
including accounts and tests on mainframes.

May have to look into these opportunities; I've not taken any IBM training.

PS: I recently got some Professional Certificates like "IBM Mainframe Developer" or "z/OS Mainframe Practitioner Specialization." There were others doing the same at the same time. Honestly, I don't know what
those might be worth, but dealing with z/OS, ISPF, REXX, CICS
and COBOL on an IBM Z Mainframe was great fun though. ;)

I did REXX back when I co-oped with BNR (Bell Northern Research),
the research arm of Nortel Telecom later known as Nortel.

That was a cool language. I couldn't probably write a hello world program
with it now; that was many years ago. Should look and see if I could
find REXX class, and interpreter for linux. LOL
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Amessyroom@f10.n1.z5.binkp.net (Amessyroom) writes:

I did REXX back when I co-oped with BNR (Bell Northern Research),
the research arm of Nortel Telecom later known as Nortel.

That was a cool language. I couldn't probably write a hello world program with it now; that was many years ago. Should look and see if I could
find REXX class, and interpreter for linux. LOL

REXX is cool, indeed!

/**/
SAY 'HELLO, REXX!'

That's all.
--
David Meyer
Takarazuka, Japan
papa@sdf.org
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On 7/11/2024 5:29 AM, Amessyroom wrote:

I did REXX back when I co-oped with BNR (Bell Northern Research),
the research arm of Nortel Telecom later known as Nortel.

That was a cool language. I couldn't probably write a hello world program with it now; that was many years ago. Should look and see if I could
find REXX class, and interpreter for linux. LOL

https://regina-rexx.sourceforge.io/
https://github.com/0branch/regina

Arne

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Hello Amessyroom!

Thursday July 11 2024 10:29, Amessyroom wrote to Robert Doerfler:

..

I'll have to find the class, and see if I can get GnuCOBOL to work on
my VPS or RaspPi, and see if I can write some COBOL programs.

Works well on a Pi 3B+ with a 1Tb HDD - needed to install a Cobol
application on it as a self contained system offloaded from the main system
for some months with the idea of reducing overall power consumption.
Also set up a back up for it on a brand new Pi4B with 8Gb Ram and a SSD
but as it was not really needed dropped that idea.

I set up on the Pi3 Hercules running MVS, ciks, Cobol etc., as well.

Note the use of a SSD or/and a SSD.
I do not use a SD on anything.

When it comes to mainframes, IBM offers countless opportunities,
including accounts and tests on mainframes.

May have to look into these opportunities; I've not taken any IBM
training.

PS: I recently got some Professional Certificates like "IBM
Mainframe Developer" or "z/OS Mainframe Practitioner
Specialization." There were others doing the same at the same time.
Honestly, I don't know what those might be worth, but dealing with
z/OS, ISPF, REXX, CICS and COBOL on an IBM Z Mainframe was great
fun though. ;)

I did REXX back when I co-oped with BNR (Bell Northern Research),
the research arm of Nortel Telecom later known as Nortel.

That was a cool language. I couldn't probably write a hello world
program with it now; that was many years ago. Should look and see if I
could find REXX class, and interpreter for linux. LOL

Vincent


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On Fri, 12 Jul 2024 12:58:17 +0100, "Vincent Coen" <VBCoen@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello Amessyroom!

Thursday July 11 2024 10:29, Amessyroom wrote to Robert Doerfler:

..

I'll have to find the class, and see if I can get GnuCOBOL to work on
my VPS or RaspPi, and see if I can write some COBOL programs.

Works well on a Pi 3B+ with a 1Tb HDD - needed to install a Cobol >application on it as a self contained system offloaded from the main system >for some months with the idea of reducing overall power consumption.
Also set up a back up for it on a brand new Pi4B with 8Gb Ram and a SSD
but as it was not really needed dropped that idea.

I set up on the Pi3 Hercules running MVS, ciks, Cobol etc., as well.

Note the use of a SSD or/and a SSD.
I do not use a SD on anything.

When it comes to mainframes, IBM offers countless opportunities,
including accounts and tests on mainframes.

May have to look into these opportunities; I've not taken any IBM training.

PS: I recently got some Professional Certificates like "IBM
Mainframe Developer" or "z/OS Mainframe Practitioner
Specialization." There were others doing the same at the same time.
Honestly, I don't know what those might be worth, but dealing with
z/OS, ISPF, REXX, CICS and COBOL on an IBM Z Mainframe was great
fun though. ;)

I did REXX back when I co-oped with BNR (Bell Northern Research),
the research arm of Nortel Telecom later known as Nortel.

That was a cool language. I couldn't probably write a hello world
program with it now; that was many years ago. Should look and see if I could find REXX class, and interpreter for linux. LOL

Vincent

GNUCobol on a Pi vs mainframe does not have comparable performance, think factor "millions". But it does work..... Biggest problem
for me at the time was lack of a decent SQL preprocessor for mySQL/MariaDB. MQTT did work reasonably well.

Since then I've moved to Python, better support for all types of infra & easy to learn for a Cobol person.
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Hello Joe!

Saturday July 13 2024 14:03, Joe wrote to All:

Vincent

GNUCobol on a Pi vs mainframe does not have comparable performance,
think factor "millions". But it does work..... Biggest problem for
me at the time was lack of a decent SQL preprocessor for
mySQL/MariaDB. MQTT did work reasonably well.

Since then I've moved to Python, better support for all types of infra
& easy to learn for a Cobol person.

I use the JC pre compiler but other will also work IF the are coded in
Cobol or C. JC was compiled using the Pi and I built my ACAS system that
used it for all file processing transferred to Mysql / mariadb.


For ODBC pre-compiler the is at least one but I have never used as documentation is nil. IT is available on the GC website under contribs.



Vincent


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