You can instruct the Compiler invoked by the isCOBOL IDE to generate DatabaseBridge subroutines by adding one or more entries to the resources/iscobol.properties file of the project. For example, to generate subroutines for the Microsoft SQL Server database, add these lines:

Enabling subroutines generation in the resources/iscobol.properties file affects all the programs in the project. If you wish to generate subroutines only for one or few specific programs, don’t edit the resources/iscobol.properties file, but add the corresponding compiler directives at the top of the programs source code. For example, to generate subroutines for the Microsoft SQL Server database, change the program’s first lines as follows:

When the program is compiled, by default, two subdirectories named easydb are generated under the source directory and the output directory of the project, and they contain the DatabaseBridge subroutines source code and compiled classes respectively.

Note - Relative paths in the DatabaseBridge configuration (i.e. iscobol.compiler.easydb.output and iscobol.compiler.easydb.sql.output) are resolved from the project’s source directory.