Keypoint and Linux?

[Jeremy Fowler]

Cobol is a programming language but it stores its data in binary flat
files. So in a sense it is its own database. There are applications that
can extract data out of cobal files, but it's a messy task. There is no
such beast as an ODBC cobal driver... 
 
We had a Cobal based Agency Management system here four years ago. We
ended up moving to a SQL based solution from another vendor. We did have
to extract some data from the cobal app, but luckily the new vendor had
experience with our old system and was able to do that for us. The data
wasn't very pretty.

I would recommend your client shop around for a more technologically
advanced trucking system. Or have one designed. 

-----Original Message-----
From: kclug-bounces at kclug.org [mailto:kclug-bounces at kclug.org] On Behalf
Of Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO
Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 11:18 AM
To: KC Linux Users Group
Subject: RE: Keypoint and Linux?

 Run?
How would it use a Cobol database?  Cobol is a programming language.
There are GNU Cobol components for compiling (gcc, may have to add an
extension), but I've never heard of a Cobol database.   I'm working with
a Sybase database modeling tool on Windows right now (Power Builder 11)
and it can work with basically any database and supposedly reverse
engineer obscure ones, so they tell me.  I'm going to make a broad
statement and say that any ODBC-enabled database will work with Winders
and you should be able to get it to work with Linux too.  Any input from
DBAs?