Programming for a DB2 environment
In general, the coding for a COBOL program will be the same if you want the program to access a DB2® database. However, to retrieve, update, insert, and delete DB2 data and use other DB2 services, you must use SQL statements.
To communicate with DB2, do these steps:
- Code any SQL statements that you need, delimiting them with
EXEC SQLandEND-EXECstatements. - Either use the DB2 stand-alone
precompiler, or compile with the
SQLcompiler option and use the DB2 coprocessor.