COBOL Integration Requirements

The following are the prerequisites necessary to connect IBM Manta Data Lineage to this third-party system, which you may choose to do at your sole discretion. Note that while these are usually sufficient to connect to this third-party system, we cannot guarantee that the connection or integration will be successful since we have no control, liability, or responsibility for third-party products or services, including for their performance.

• ANSI/ISO COBOL 85 compatible scripts in one supported format: FIXED, HP TANDEM, VARIABLE, or FREE

• Copybooks (optional)

• IBM Mainframe Job Control scripts, also known as JCL scripts (optional)

Known Unsupported Features

IBM Manta Data Lineage does not support the following COBOL features. This list includes all of the features that IBM is aware are unsupported, but it might not be comprehensive.

• Note that additional extensions used in COBOL scripts that were added in newer ANSI/ISO standards (object programming, intrinsic functions, etc.) and dialect (compiler) specific extensions (embedded SQL, etc.) may be supported but are not guaranteed.

• EXEC SQL blocks are evaluated independently of each other within the same COBOL script which may cause gaps in lineage for cases when there is a non-perstent context that needs to be shared, e.g. DECLARE-OPEN-FETCH CURSOR statements, each in a separate EXEC SQL block will result in an incomplete lineage.