Comment by tomcam
18 days ago
How did you call COBOL from VB.NET? Was it just a matter of shelling to COBOL and writing out text files that VB.NET consumed, or COM interprocess calls, or what?
18 days ago
How did you call COBOL from VB.NET? Was it just a matter of shelling to COBOL and writing out text files that VB.NET consumed, or COM interprocess calls, or what?
You can check with the GnuCOBOL project, It works on Windows,MAC/Linux. Open Source and free. The discussion on the sourceforge page would be a good place to ask! https://sourceforge.net/p/gnucobol/discussion/
The COBOL layer had a TCP server somewhere in it (don’t know the details of that). We simply made TCP calls directly, sending and receiving fixed-sized records.
Ah! Relief. I wouldn't have known how to search for that.