COBOL Developer Day 2014 - It's your choice - COBOL Deployment to .NET or JVM

2. It’s Your Choice –
COBOL Deployment to .NET
or JVM

3.  What new in the latest update
 What is managed code and why should you care
 Reusable Frameworks
 Moving to managed code
Agenda

4.  New capabilities for working with Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 and
Microsoft .NET 4.5
 New platform support for Windows 8.1, Oracle Linux 6.5, Red Hat
Linux 6.5 and AIX 7.1
 Many enhancements to increase runtime performance
 JDBC Connection Sharing
 And more …..
What’s New in 2.2 Update 1

5.  Managed code = .NET or JVM
 Native code or unmanaged = everything else
Terminology

6.  Virtual execution environment
• Portable Intermediate Language
• JIT
 Garbage collection
 Object-oriented
 Extensive frameworks/Class Libraries
 COBOL code generated directly to byte code
What is Managed code

7. 1 C
2 Java
3 Objective-C
4 C++
5 C#
6 Visual Basic
7 PHP
8 Python
9 JavaScript
10 Visual Basic .NET
11 Transact-SQL
12 Perl
13 Ruby
14 ActionScript
15 F#
16 Lisp
17 Delphi/Object Pascal
18 Pascal
19 MATLAB
20 Assembler
1 C
2 Java
3 Objective-C
4 C++
5 C#
6 Visual Basic
7 PHP
8 Python
9 JavaScript
10 Visual Basic .NET
11 Transact-SQL
12 Perl
13 Ruby
14 ActionScript
15 F#
16 Lisp
17 Delphi/Object Pascal
18 Pascal
19 MATLAB
20 Assembler
Why managed code
How popular is managed code?
www.tiobe.com
1 C
2 Java
3 Objective-C
4 C++
5 C#
6 Visual Basic
7 PHP
8 Python
9 JavaScript
10 Visual Basic .NET
11 Transact-SQL
12 Perl
13 Ruby
14 ActionScript
15 F#
16 Lisp
17 Delphi/Object Pascal
18 Pascal
19 MATLAB
20 Assembler

8. Why managed code
reuse what already works

9. Why managed code
21st century user interfaces

10. Why managed code
Application Integrity
Micro Focus COBOL runtime error:
114 Attempt to access item beyond bounds of memory (Signal 11)

11. Application Integrity
Demonstration
Try/Catch Exception handling in COBOL

12.  Debug C#/Java and COBOL together
 End-to-end testing
 Single IDE for building and testing
 Single debug process
 Same developer
Why managed code
End-to-end debugging

13. Reusable Frameworks
Demonstration
Date/Time Arithmetic

14.  What is managed code?
 Different perspectives on why deploy to .NET or JVM?
 Some lessons learned
Moving to managed code

15.  .NET/JVM are fundamentally built on OO principles
 Procedural semantics still apply
 Visual COBOL extensions
 Samples browser
Object Oriented Programming

16. Data

17.  Good to go in .NET and JVM
 Be mindful of performance for IO intensive batch operations
 Significant improvements to file handling operations with Visual
COBOL VC 2.2+
File Handling

18. COBOL programs can contain embedded SQL
Your choices:
1. Database vendor pre-compiler such as Oracle
Pro*COBOL
a) COBSQL provides single compile-step integrated with the IDE
2. Micro Focus OpenESQL
a) Connect to any ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET enabled data source
Database access Primer
procedure division.
exec sql
connect to Northwind
end-exec
if sqlcode not = 0
display "Error during CONNECT : " SQLCODE
display mfsqlmessagetext
goback
end-if

19.  Oracle does not support managed code using Pro*COBOL
 Use OpenESQL for JDBC and ADO.NET
 Use Pro*COBOL directives MODE=ANSI and FIPS to determine non-
standard ANSI syntax
 Some Oracle extensions supported by OpenESQL other extensions
will need to be reworked
 No PL/SQL support
Database access under Managed Code

20. Demonstration
File Handling and SQL Access

21.  To do anything “Thin” will involve an app server
 All major Java App Servers supported in Visual COBOL 2.2
• Tomcat
• JBOSS
• Webshere
• WebLogic
 Web Services and JSPs
 Java coding required
 See community.microfocus.com for walkthrus
Java App Servers

22. COBOL JVM Roadmap
R3/4
JVM COBOL
Preview
JVM COBOL
Launch
2.0
JDBC support
Pure JVM
2.1
Web Container
support under
Tomcat
Web services, JSP
and Servlet
deployment
2.2
Web container
support
WebLogic
Websphere
JBOSS
2.3
EJB container
deployment
From desktop to J2EE EJB deployment…
…re-use core COBOL applications directly within
the Java Virtual Machine

23. • COBOL, Java or C#, VB…Presentation
• OO COBOL Wrapper
• Run unit
Business Access
• Existing Procedural COBOLBusiness logic
• Isolated data IO modulesData Access
• RDBMS
• Data filesData
Modernizing your architecture

24.  Dialog System
 3rd Party support
 Win32APIs
 CBL_ routines
 Pointers
 Native code
Other considerations

25.  Micro Focus Product Documentation
 Visual COBOL Forum at the Micro Focus Community Site
 http://community.microfocus.com – Our community Site
 Managed Code Tutorial in the Product Documentation
 Web Based Training Resource
Resources to get you started
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26.  Managed code is a fantastic way to modernize your application
• Get more done using Java and .NET frameworks
• Create new user interfaces and services based deployments
 Be prepared
• New skills – OO, Java, .NET, frameworks
• Check for unsupported options such as APIs and database pre-
compilers
 Speak to Micro Focus before you start or at least, let us know once
you’ve deployed!
Summary

27. Questions