Database Connectors for Visual COBOL

Database Connectors supports the base version and all incremental updates to that base version.

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RDBMS base 9.x 10.0 10.3 10.4 10.5
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Database Connectors uses standard COBOL I/O statements to access databases. It handles the translation between standard COBOL and the SQL used by the RDBMS.

Specific instructions and status messages apply to each type of RDBMS, and these are included in their own RDBMS-specific sections.

Parent topic: Additional Software Requirements