The Data Monster Under my bed : Migrating Cobol to the cloud – Part 6: Put the docker image on a diet

If you remember the last article, we started exploring the variables, but if you follow along you are seing so far that the image is getting bigger, like 405 MB bigger. While for development this might be in the ok range stacking the generated binary for production usage you will have to put the extra… Continue reading The Data Monster Under my bed : Migrating Cobol to the cloud – Part 6: Put the docker image on a diet

The Data Monster Under my bed : Migrating Cobol to the cloud – Part 5: Lets display a variable

If you remember in PART 3 we, going trough the divisions and there where we saw that there is a “DATA DIVISION” DATA DIVISION – description (s) and definition (s) of data items referenced by the program (names, lengths, decimal point location, formats, and other) Data division explanation from part 3 The “DATA DIVISION” takes care… Continue reading The Data Monster Under my bed : Migrating Cobol to the cloud – Part 5: Lets display a variable

The Data Monster Under my bed : Migrating Cobol to the cloud – Part 4: Our First Program, build and run it … on docker

Lets do it quick From this article we will start learning COBOL in step by step approach with smaller hands on examples. The prerequisites we will need: Docker installed Visual Studio code COBOL Source editing for Visual Studio Code plugin So lets begin From the last article, we know that we have several mandatory divisions… Continue reading The Data Monster Under my bed : Migrating Cobol to the cloud – Part 4: Our First Program, build and run it … on docker