Interfacing with Java Programs

Can a COBOL procedural program be INVOKED with an array of objects instead of a standard CALL with USING?

Nov 25, 2024 object oriented array 95 0/5 (0 Vote)

If you prefer to use OOP syntax to invoke a COBOL procedural program and pass an array of objects as parameters rather than the standard COBOL CALL statement with USING, isCOBOL provides a feasible approach. First, the isCOBOL class com.iscobol.java... Read More

We plan to replace our CICS screens with Java dialogs. How will the COBOL structures be passed between the Java dialogs and the other COBOL programs?

Nov 17, 2009 7666 0/5 (0 Vote)

The isCOBOL Compiler outputs Java classes (actual Java .class files). Each COBOL subprogram becomes a Java class with a method for calling it. This call method accepts the COBOL linkage items as an array of Java Objects. The caller can pass Java... Read More

Example of COBOL using Java classes to get date and time zone information

Jan 29, 2010 12940 0/5 (0 Vote)

The attached program 'calendar.cbl' uses OOP to return information about a passed date and the current time using the java.util.GregorianCalendar and other related classes. You can compile and run it as follows: iscc calendar.cbl ... Read More

How to create and write an excel spreadsheet playing with different attributes like font, color, format, highlight, etc?.

Dec 12, 2017 3870 0/5 (0 Vote)

Here are the steps to compile and run the attached sample COBOL program (in xlsx.zip) which will create an Excel spreadsheet and change the format, font, color and highlight some of the cells. This sample uses Apache POI based on the POI API... Read More