Usage of cobol program in QTP

[Guy Werry]

Agreed. 

In my specific case, I've written Cobol programs for cases where the
logic was just too convoluted for Qtp.  It was one of those cases where,
yes, I probably could have done it in Qtp, but Cobol would allow me to
do it in a clearer fashion, with more control.  

Guy L. Werry
Senior Systems Analyst
Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting Co., Limited. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Viet Nguyen [mailto:VNguyen at wsboces.org] 
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 7:47 AM
To: Guy Werry; powerh-l at lists.sowder.com
Subject: RE: Usage of cobol program in QTP

If you share the temp data in a Relational database it would be quite
painless especially now that PH is going to hook up to mysql you can get
that for free. And who would want to rewrite a cobol program if you
already have it!

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Of Guy Werry
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 3:44 PM
To: powerh-l at lists.sowder.com
Subject: RE: Usage of cobol program in QTP

You know, it really isn't as much of a pain as what it sounds like,
although you do have to be really careful to avoid things like floating
point data, which really confuses Cobol!

I find the work defining the data structures to be worth it because of
the overhead in reading / linking database files in Cobol.  Qtp is much
easier and faster to develop in for that.  As a matter of fact, since
1990 or so I've only had a couple of instances where the processing that
I was doing was so weird and convoluted that I had to resort to Cobol.
I use Powerhouse instead.  As a matter of fact, I don't use Fortran any
more, unless I'm doing maintenance on an existing program and even then
I'll try to re-write it in Powerhouse ... It's just that much more
convenient!

And, managing the sequence of events in batch is child's play.  Just
don't mess with the stream code and you're good to go!

Guy L. Werry
Senior Systems Analyst
Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting Co., Limited. 


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Of Johnson, Tracy
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 2:35 PM
To: Deskin, Bob; Viet Nguyen; Pandurang Rajpurohit;
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Cc: Joe Boyle
Subject: RE: Usage of cobol program in QTP

True, you would have to do something strange, like write the data to a
file with QTP then pick it up at a later time with COBOL.  Defining the
file structure in both programs would be a royal pain.  Then you'd have
to manage the sequence of events properly, either manually in or batch.
Depending how often you'd have to switch between the two programs.  It
would be less trouble just to stick with COBOL.


Tracy Johnson
Measurement Specialties, Inc.

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Subject: RE: Usage of cobol program in QTP


You can, but there is no connection between the COBOL program and QTP.
In other words, you can't pass data back and forth.

Bob
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Sent: July 18, 2007 1:29 PM
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Cc: Joe Boyle
Subject: RE: Usage of cobol program in QTP


Why can't you do a Shell command  like "! cobol.sh" ?


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From: powerh-l-bounces+vnguyen=wsboces.org at lists.sowder.com
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Of Deskin, Bob
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 1:26 PM
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Cc: Joe Boyle
Subject: RE: Usage of cobol program in QTP

You can't call a COBOL subroutine directly from QTP. There is no
equivalent of QUICK's DO EXTERNAL. There may be other techniques to run
a program as a subprocess but there would be no connection between the
COBOL program and QTP.
Bob
Bob Deskin
Senior Product Manager
Application Development Tools
Cognos Incorporated
Office: 613-738-1338 ext. 7268
bob.deskin at cognos.com
http://powerhouse.cognos.com
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Behalf Of Pandurang Rajpurohit
Sent: July 18, 2007 9:21 AM
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Cc: Joe Boyle
Subject: Usage of cobol program in QTP

Hello All, 


Any one could suggest how to make use of cobol program in  QTP. 

Thanks & Regards
Pandurang Rajpurohit,

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