SQL COBOL to Consume REST APIs -- COBOL400-L

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Subject: SQL COBOL to Consume REST APIs
From: Kelly Cookson <KCookson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2022 15:07:08 +0000
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Hi,

I am looking for a way to develop a REST API client with COBOL. I know it can be done with RPG. But I want to know if it can be done with COBOL.

Is it possible for a COBOL program to use embedded SQL to do the following?

1. Use the new QSYS2 HTTP functions to consume a REST API. (Needs to be the new QSYS2 functions and not the old SYSTOOLS functions.)

2. Use the SQL function JSON_TABLE to get the data from the JSON returned by the REST API.

I am not asking for examples. I just want to know if anyone has already done this, so I know it is possible. Or know if it is not possible and not waste my time trying.

Thanks,

Kelly Cookson
Senior Software Engineer II
Dot Foods, Inc.
1-217-773-4486 ext. 12676
www.dotfoods.com<http://www.dotfoods.com>

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Follow-Ups:

Re: SQL COBOL to Consume REST APIs , Jackson, Bobby J. [US-US]
Re: SQL COBOL to Consume REST APIs , Jack Woehr
Re: SQL COBOL to Consume REST APIs , Roman Miklos

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