Hi,

Has anyone called a COBOL subroutine using COBOL CALL from a COBOL/DB2
stored procedure? What are the complexities associated and what system
setting might be required?

Is this approach strategically better compared to converting the COBOL
subroutine into a stored procedure and then using a SQL CALL? This
COBOL subroutine is currently called by other COBOL and CICS programs
and will continue to be used there as well. If we covert it to a stored
procedure, other COBOL and CICS programs will also need to be changed.
But that effort is not a problem if converting this complex COBOL
subroutine into stored procedure is strategically beneficial in terms
of performance, debugging, future enhancements etc.

We have several such complex subroutines which are currently called
from COBOL and CICS programs. Now, there is a need for these
subroutines to be used real-time via web. We are planning to create new
stored procedures that will be called from web and these stored
procedures will in tern call the COBOL subroutines. We need to
strategically decide which way to go.

Thanks.