COBOL
COBOL is a traditional and very common mainframe programming language that is utilized for a variety of business applications. COBOL programs can be online or batch programs. COBOL programs can run in any OS/390 address space, can execute under a variety of transaction managers such as CICS, and can be used for DB2 stored procedures and user-defined functions. COBOL is one of the most common programming languages, and there are many billions of lines of COBOL code in use today.
COBOL API
DB2 provides a COBOL API that allows you to embed static or dynamic SQL into a COBOL program. You can code SQL statements in the COBOL program sections, which are listed in Table 12-1.
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