cobol.run

Run serverless COBOL programs on OpenWhisk. Built with Trails.js and Node.

Usage

The user sends a POST request containing COBOL source code, and receives as a response the result of the execution of the program.

Example

• Request: POST /compileAndRun

  {
    "options": {
      "dialect": "cobol2014"
    },
    "source": "identification division. program-id. hello. procedure division. display \"hello world\"."
  }

• Response:

  {
    "code": 0,
    "output": "hello world"
  }

API

POST payload

field	type	description	required
source	String	the COBOL source to compile and run	yes
files	Array (File)	List of files required by the cobol program	no
args	Array (String)	List of arguments to pass into the cobol program at runtime	no
options	Object	List of custom gnucobol compiler flags	no

File

The files array contains File objects.

field	type	description	required
name	String	Name of the file	yes
data	String	Contents of the file	yes

options.dialect

Supported COBOL dialects

dialect	description
cobol2014	Cobol 2014 Dialect
cobol2002	Cobol 2002 Dialect
cobol85	Cobol 85 Dialect
ibm	IBM Dialect
mvs	MVS Dialect
bs2000	BS2000 Dialect
mf	MicroFocus Dialect
acu	ACUCOBOL Dialect

Resources

• COBOL: Up and Running in 3 minutes
• COBOL: Parsing Copybook Files into JSON
• Serverless COBOL on the Cloud: Introduction to cobol.run
• COBOL Programs as Functions: How The cobol.run Cloud FaaS Works, Part 1

License

MIT

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