COBOL API

dbSpaces's COBOL API is an interface that enables developers to make requests to retrieve data from dbSpaces Virtual Database Servers and is built into a COBOL application at run-time.

The COBOL API replaces the COBOL run-time File Handler so that all COBOL I/O calls are mapped to the dbSpaces API calls. Any COBOL application can without any source code changes access existing COBOL files and also any tables in other data source held in the dbSpaces Virtual Database at the same time.

A COBOL Application for example could access a table held in an Oracle, SQL Server or a noSQL databases such as MongoDB, transparently and with no code changes if the Data Orchestration addon is licensed.

Additionally COBOL files can be converted automatically to Oracle, SQL Server or DB2, again without any source code changes.

The COBOL API also provides the ability to make dynamic SQL calls to retreive data from a dbSpaces Virtual Database.