Hi, our company works with Visual cobol and COBSQL preprocessor for Informix.
We are testing to change to Visual cobol and openESQL and we have found that if a cursor is named with a host variable the program gives and compilation error.
we has discover that If we change de cursor to a "prepare" compilation is ok, but in our instalation there are a lot of programs with this kind of declarations, and having to change it is a problem
There are some way to avoid the compilation error without change the code of the program? something like a compilation directive, and OpenESQL Preprocessor Options, an upgrade of the openSQL...?
This is an example of code:
declaration of the host variable to name the cursor
exec sql begin declare section end-exec
01 sql-cursor pic x(30).
exec sql end declare section end-exec.
Declaration of the cursor
if conditionA
move 'cursorA' to sql-cursor
else
move 'cursorB' to sql-cursor
end-if
exec sql
declare :sql-cursor cursor for ..............
end-exec.
exec sql
open :sql-cursor
end-exec.
exec sql
fetch :sql-cursor
into :.......
end-exec.
exec sql close :sql-cursor end-exec.
