Subj : Cobol/gnucobol
To   : Dumas Walker
From : Darknetgirl
Date : Mon Jun 02 2025 13:25:22

  Re: Cobol/gnucobol
  By: Dumas Walker to DARKNETGIRL on Fri May 30 2025 10:51 am

 
 > I coded on iSeries professionally. 

That's amazing! Many years ago, second half of 90s, I was at the
AS/400 support center. Unfortunately I probably wasn't savvy enough
to learn COBOL on AS/400. it felt so difficult back then. 
I think I have a book on COBOL on AS/400 in the garage that I have to 
get back to life. I was much enjoying networking. 

 > Your sentence got cut off here. 

I still need to learn again how to use these editors :-/

 > code.  I will poke around here and see what I might have.

That would be really helpful! Thank you very much!
Mind that I'm just learning and that's for fun, no professional interets.

 > Last I checked, IBM did have their COBOL language reference available 
 > online. 

They do, and it's pretty awesome. Plus, they do have mainframe COBOL and
ILE-COBOL. But as per any reference, you need to have some basis. And
I'm still waaaaaay behind. 

 > I would expect that a CRUD application would be like that, so that the code 
 > that interacts with the database could at least partially be reused for 
 > each function.  The end users may have also requested that all functions be 
 > contained in one application.

Just to set the expectations, I'm writing a simple app to catalog some
collectables. It has a single indexed file at the moment. 
 
 > Not sure.  I think by "command" you might mean the paragraph names.

It wasn't what I meant, but you actually answered me in the example
you provided.
What I meant was something like:

"(A)dd, (E)dit, (D)elete, (E)xit => _"

In your example code was stored in the variable PROCESS-INDICATOR

 > That is a very simplistic example.  If that turns out not to be what you 
 > are asking about, let me know and I will try again.  :) 

It was! But there's so much to learn.
At the end, I just want to have a bit of fun.

Thanks,
Darknetgirl

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