How to use copybooks for COBOL programm using CICS and DB2?
Summary A developer building a CICS/DB2 application in COBOL encountered program length issues and compilation failures when attempting to modularize code using copybooks. The core issue stems from a misunderstanding of the precompilation order of operations. Because DB2 SQL (via EXEC SQL) must be preprocessed into standard COBOL before the COBOL compiler can process it, … Read more