All the
COBOL File Definitions are translated by COBOLTranslator to SQL Data-Definition
Language. They can be used to create the table schemas in ANY SQL Compliant
database. Following is a rough guide to building them into an ORACLE database.
You will need access to SQL PLUS.
- Connect to the database using
SQL PLUS using an DBA account.
- Create Tables owner - give
name of the application as the user -name : eg for an personnel
application the username may be 'PERSONNL':
CREATE USER PERSONNL
IDENTIFIED BY XXXXs;
CREATE ROLE role_app_dev;
GRANT dba to role_app_dev;
GRANT role_app_dev to PERSONNL;
- Next connect to the database
as PERSONNL and run the SQL Scripts in your
<Output directory>\sql-ddl\
- Each script in this directory
will create an individual table. To save time and generate one overall
script - open a DOS (command prompt) box, go to the db-def directory, and
type
Type *.* ..\build.sql
This will create one script in the output directory containing all the table definitions.
You can run this script from SQL PLUS by typeing
C:\<Output Directory>\build.sql;
Or alternatively
C:\<Output Directory>\sql-ddl\table1. sql;
Where
table1.sql is the script for generation of table1- You will need to do this for
all the tables (scripts) generated.
- Once all the tables are
created, other users will have access to the tables by specifying the
table Owner and Table Name eg :
Select * from PERSONNL.Table1;
You now
need to create public synonyms to so the tables can be accessed without the
owner-name - i.e. to allow users to run the following SQL statement:
Select * from Table1;
To create the public synonym run the following script from SQL PLUS :
spool C:\auto.sql;
select 'Create public synonym ' || table_name
|| ' FOR ' || table_name || ';'
from user_tables ;
spool off;
This creates the file auto.sql in you c:\ directory.
Open this file (using notepad or other editors) and remove the SQL Header lines.
Then return to SQL - PLUS and type
C:\auto.sql;
Now all your tables can be accessed normally.
Note that for DELPHI applications You will also need
to create an ALIAS for the database using the Delphi BDE Configuration utility.