The SQL technology that was present in
Net Express is now seamlessly integrated within the Visual Studio 2010 development environment. When you develop COBOL SQL applications in Visual Studio, you can use the same development environment to extend and modernize your COBOL assets.
Features include:
- OpenESQL technology that supports embedded SQL in your COBOL applications
- OpenESQL Assistant that automatically generates embedded SQL in a COBOL program template given basic database information
- DB/2 ECM technology that uses embedded SQL to work with DB2 LUW
- COBSQL processor that provides native DBMS SQL support for Oracle's Pro*COBOL and other vendors
