Database access from COBOL

Well, it looks like this semester of student VAX use went well. Now
it is time to start building on this. The students who just did data-
structures will be moving on to their first database course. The last
thing they did with COBOL on the VAX was ISAM. Looks like a good lead-
up to see why databases are the next step. So, can someone point me
at some simple examples of database access from COBOL on VMS? And let
me know which manual I shuold expect to find more detailed information
about it? (It would be nice if I had the time to pl,ay with it myself,
but I don't and I hate re-inventing the wheel anyway.) Who knows, maybe
we are headed towards a VMS Renaisance in Education!! Maybe if we get
through this next semester with the students working on VMS again I
can convince the professor involved to consider a paper for the Small
Colleges Conference about using VMS to handle these concepts.

bill

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