[Info-vax] First ship poll: When will the first native x86-64 compilers ship ?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 4/17/2022 4:45 AM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> Den 2022-04-17 kl. 02:26, skrev Arne Vajhøj:
>> On 4/16/2022 6:54 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>> On 4/16/22 18:09, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>> On 4/16/2022 7:28 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>>>> Like maybe, IBM zSystem running COBOL with CICS and a DB2 backend.
>>>>
>>>> I don't see that combo as special.
>>>>
>>>> CGI scripts in Cobol or PL/I would require the developers
>>>> to write maybe 10 times as much code and the result would
>>>> perform really bad.
>>>>
>>>> Java or Python frontend calling C wrapper calling Cobol
>>>> or PL/I code may be doable, but comes with a lot of risks
>>>> due to potentially incompatible threading/transactional/whatever
>>>> models.
>>>
>>> Why would you need all of that?  COBOL does CICS and CICS does
>>> the web.  No extra code required.
>>
>> That sounds pretty easy.
>>
>> But if we assume RESTful web services which are by far the
>> most common today.
>>
>> 1) How does CICS know the right URL to assign to a resource?
>> 2) How does CICS know whether to use path or query URL?
>> 3) How does CICS know whether to do XML or JSON or both?
>> 4) How does CICS know whether to do CORS?
>>
> 
> You use CWS. Google "cics web service". CWS gives access
> to the usual tools used in web services programming.
> 
> I did CICS/Cobol/DB2 development including CWS approx.
> 20 years ago. At that time to build common web pages but
> it seems to have evolved to include other functionallity.

I get that there is a web server.

I get that there are some Cobol code doing something.

What I don't get is how the web server end up exposing the
right API.

I know how ones does it in Java and C# - using annotations/attributes
in the application code to define it.

I have seen examples of how it is done in PHP and Python - setting up
callbacks.

I cannot see how that CICS web server can figure that out with
no code changes.

I am not a great believer in mind reading software.

Arne