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System and method for distributed processing in COBOL

a distributed processing and cobol technology, applied in the field of computer programs and computer programming languages, can solve the problems of difficult for businesses to justify abandoning cobol applications for newer technologies, cobol language limitations, and limited cobol application ranges

Inactive Publication Date: 2005-05-05
SPRINT CORPORATION
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Due to the huge investment in these large, business critical, COBOL applications, it is difficult for businesses to justify abandoning the COBOL applications for newer technologies.
Unfortunately, COBOL is severely limited in a number of areas compared to the processing techniques available to developers that use other languages such as C or JAVA.
Although the COBOL language has limitations, it is difficult for businesses with a significant investment in COBOL programs to justify abandoning the COBOL applications and redeveloping the applications using a more modern and flexible language, such as C or JAVA.

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[0022] It should be understood at the outset that although an exemplary implementation of one embodiment is illustrated below, the present system may be implemented using any number of techniques, whether currently known or in existence. The present disclosure should in no way be limited to the exemplary implementations, drawings, and techniques illustrated below, including the exemplary design and implementation illustrated and described herein, but may be modified within the scope of the appended claims along with their full scope of equivalents.

[0023]FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating one embodiment for implementing distributed and asynchronous processing in COBOL. To the domestic and international COBOL programming community, enabling distributed and asynchronous processing for the COBOL programming language is a significant achievement that enables a new paradigm for COBOL applications and programmers, whether for mainframe or PC COBOL systems.

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A system for enabling socket communication in COBOL program is provided. The system includes a memory block, a COBOL program communicating with the memory block, a socket and a COBOL routine callable from the COBOL program. The COBOL routine is operable to read information from the socket and write the information read from the socket to the memory block in response to the COBOL program call. A method for socket and pipe communication in COBOL is also provided. The method includes reading, by a routine, information from a socket or pipe and writing, by the routine, the information to an area. The method provides for reading, by a COBOL program, the information from the area. The COBOL program and the routine operating in the same runtime environment.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001] This application is related to U.S. patent application Ser. No. ______ entitled SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COBOL TO PROVIDE SHARED MEMORY AND MEMORY AND MESSAGE QUEUES, inventor Joseph G. Laura, filed on even date herewith, U.S. patent application Ser. No. ______, entitled SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASYNCHRONOUS PROCESSING IN COBOL, inventor Joseph G. Laura, filed on even date herewith, and U.S. patent application Ser. No. ______ entitled IMPLEMENTATION OF DISTRIBUTED AND ASYNCHRONOUS PROCESSING IN COBOL, inventor Joseph G. Laura, filed on even date herewith, all of which are incorporated herein by reference for all purposes.STATEMENT REGARDING FEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH OR DEVELOPMENT [0002] Not applicable. REFERENCE TO A MICROFICHE APPENDIX [0003] Not applicable. FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0004] The present invention relates to the field of computer programs and computer programming languages and more specifically, but not by way of limitation, ...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): G06F9/44G06F9/45G06F9/46
CPCG06F9/52G06F9/546G06F9/542
Inventor LAURA, JOSEPH G.
Owner SPRINT CORPORATION
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