I'm not sure yet if this is reasonable, but it would definitely make migrations from Oracle, for example to PostgresSQL, much easier.
I think the "external files" are likely too oracle specific to support it, but the rest should likely be possible to translate in the driver to a matching handling.
Tracking here for possible implementation "someday" or to have a place for discussion that can be found later.
I'm not sure yet if this is reasonable, but it would definitely make migrations from Oracle, for example to PostgresSQL, much easier. I think the "external files" are likely too oracle specific to support it, but the rest should likely be possible to translate in the driver to a matching handling.
Tracking here for possible implementation "someday" or to have a place for discussion that can be found later.
ProCOBOL docs on handling Large Objects (LOBs).