This application is an Embedded SQL Pre-Processor and Runtime Libraries for GNU COBOL (formerly OpenCOBOL), which allows programmers to write COBOL applications that read, write and manipulate databases using ANSI/ISO "EXEC SQL" statements instead of a given database's API. That alone makes this application a tremendous timesaver and worth it's weight in gold. ESQL goes a step further: unlike any other pre-processor of which I'm aware, ESQL generates code that talks to ODBC drivers (ODBC is also an ANSI/ISO standard) on any platform a database vendor provides an ODBC driver for: for virtually every database in existence, vendors supply ODBC drivers for UNIX (and Linux), and MS Windows. Third-party vendors also supply ODBC drivers for various other operating systems and databases.
This application allows a programmer to code a COBOL program for one database and run it using any other (so long as said programmer has ODBC drivers for the databases-in-question) without changing anything other than the string that informs ODBC what driver they're using and any driver-specific parameters. Additionally, an application can be moved from one operating system to another - so long as both have ODBC support and the appropriate database drivers - making only the previously mentioned change, and re-compiling the COBOL program.
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