MERANT
Issue 2
March 2000
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This book describes how you can use Server Express to create a COBOL application that uses embedded SQL to access a relational database.
Note: Use of COBSQL is supported only for standard procedural COBOL programs. You cannot use COBSQL with Object Oriented COBOL syntax (OO programs) or with nested programs.
This book is for Server Express COBOL programmers who want to create or modify COBOL applications which access relational databases using embedded SQL.
It is assumed that you are already familiar with SQL. You should also be familiar with the relational database you will be accessing, including the configuration of any client software that may be needed.
The following type styles and conventions have been used in this book:
cat script_name | more
The italic text denotes a variable that you type as part of the command.
column_name
is like the pattern_value
,
or is not like the pattern_value
, depending on the
absence or presence of the optional word NOT
:
column_name [NOT] LIKE pattern_value
OpenESQL
This paragraph only applies to OpenESQL and not to DB2 or COBSQL.