IBM COBOL for Linux application compile and link options

The compile and link options for building COBOL embedded SQL and API applications with the IBM COBOL for Linux on x86 compiler are available in the bldapp build script.

When the bldapp script invokes the COBOL compiler, the EXEC SQL statements in your program have already been translated to COBOL language statements in a prior step. Alternatively, you can use the COBOL compiler's integrated Db2 coprocessor to translate the EXEC SQL statements and perform the compilation at the same time. To use the integrated coprocessor, add the -qsql option to the compile options described below. Compilation and linking can also be performed in a single invocation of the cob2 command by combining the compilation and linking options described below, and omitting the -c option.