[open-cobol-list] LIXA initial support for GNU COBOL

[Christian Ferrari]

I'm proud to announce that LIXA has started to support GNU COBOL.

The first two running examples (Ubuntu 14.04 is the current base version) are available here:

https://github.com/tiian/lixa/tree/master/doc/examples/cobol

https://sourceforge.net/p/lixa/git/ci/master/tree/doc/examples/cobol/

The first supported XA compliant Resource Manager is PostgreSQL; the "direct" approach as explained here: http://open-cobol.sourceforge.net/faq/#direct-postgresql-sample has been used. More Resource Managers and more examples will follow.

LIXA brief overview.

LIXA is an XA compliant Transaction Manager: it strictly adheres to XA specification (https://www2.opengroup.org/ogsys/jsp/publications/PublicationDetails.jsp?catalogno=c193) and it provides a standard TX (Transaction Demarcation) Specification API (https://www2.opengroup.org/ogsys/jsp/publications/PublicationDetails.jsp?publicationid=11221) to allow developers in building two phase commit transactions.
TX API is a double faced API: there's a C version and a COBOL version.

Please use LIXA "Open Discussion" forum https://sourceforge.net/p/lixa/discussion/934465/

to suggest your preferred/desired resource managers and all the hints that can help.

Regards,

Ch.F.