Re: [open-cobol-list] I'd like to contribute to OC

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My name is Marcello Marsile
I as well work in a little firm giving administration services in Italy.
We have 4.000.000+ of cobol code running in Microfocus.
I have been following open cobol's  growing from it's beginning 
(Keishure's time. I hope I wrote his name correctely).
I never decided to port our sources to open cobol as I found it has 
never had a valid indexed file handler (in particular xopen split keys 
handling and client-server sharing) nor functions keeys handling.
In the past I wrote a few cobol routines for automatic cobol 
screen-sections to tcl sources translation. Tcl's (I leave them in 
source and not compiled) are just a system (wiish, tclkit, freewrapplus) 
call from cobol receiving and returning data from and to a set of small 
line sequential files handled by cobol programs which do all validation, 
computation and handling..
I find Ulf's idea is great and I am willing to post my screen-section to 
tcl sources.
This could be a good wake-up for "sleeping open cobol" and, perhaps, 
someone else could be interested in adding other interesting things.
My languages are cobol, tcl and a C. If Ulf needs help, I could try and 
see if I am able to give some.
Bye,
Marcello

Ulf Dambacher ha scritto:
> Hi
>
> My name is Ulf Dambacher, I work in a small firm selling tools. We have 
> 315.000+ lines of cobol code running and I want to port it from ACUcobol 
> to Open Cobol.
> I found version 1.1 is fit for this, with two little drawbacks:
> a really open source solution for indexed files
> and client-server file sharing.
>
> This is where I started: I wrote an external file handler for indexed 
> files to map them to a postgresql table. The first version works by 
> storing keys and data in in separate columns of the table (data in a 
> binary blob).
> I'm thinking of implementing on the fly record<->table-column 
> conversion, which would enable OC to share database with other non key 
> sequential programs (e.g. a web frontend) written in other languages.
>
> Now I'd like to ask if I can contribute such a thing and may be do a 
> little polishing work on libcob/fileio.c?
>
> Who else uses external file handlers and what do you think?
>
> bye
> Ulf
>
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