Overview

Why does this site exist.

This site and the dscobol repositories were created because I wanted to learn how to write COBOL programs with embedded SQL Statements accessing an IBM DB2 LUW RDBMS using the GnuCOBOL compiler in a GNU/Linux environment.

According to IBM’s documentation, IBM DB2 LUW will run on RedHat Enterprise or Ubuntu.

I don’t have access to RedHat and I prefer the Pop!_OS UI over Ubuntu so I chose that.

So, the documentation and guides in this site are ALL for running apps and programs on Pop!_OS.

As an aside, this will also work in Linux Mint.

Most of it will also apply to Ubuntu or Linux Mint but “use at your discretion”.

Note: While all these programs have been run on Pop!_OS, GnuCOBOL is not limited to that OS.

Using an OS with an Ubuntu base was needed to run IBM DB2 LUW on a GNU/Linux OS.

See the GnuCOBOL site for more information about it’s capabilities.