Question

Calling External Procedure from Java Web based Application

IBM, IBM WebSphere, J2EE, UDB for iSeries/i5, OS/400, iSeries, i5, COBOL, Java, SQL

Below given is a procedure to access a CL Program in iSeries from a Java web based program.

create procedure libxxx/proc_name
LANGUAGE CL
FENCED
EXTERNAL NAME 'libxxx/clprogram'
PARAMETER STYLE GENERAL

The external CL program has other calls to Cobol programs in the same library.The procedure is in a different library.The cobol calls does not have any IN/OUT parameters

I would like to know if the above procedure would make any calls to cobol programs inside the defined CL.I tested based on the above procedure and it seems the calls are not being made to any cobol programs inside CL.

Anyone please suggest a workaround for the above mentioned problem of why its not making any calls to cobol programs.

Your java app call sql.
sql call cl.

Now in a cl, you can do anything a cl can.

You have qualified (ie add a library name) your external name. This means that your library list is probably the stansard sql libl : ie nothing.

if this is true, you can do :

- qualify your call to cobol
- before calling proc_name, call sql with "set path = *libl" (syntax to be checked)
- in the cl, add a chglibl