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ChatGPT made this nice COBOL program to create an S3 Bucket,a technical impossibility...

IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. PROGRAM-ID. CREATE-S3-BUCKET.

ENVIRONMENT DIVISION. CONFIGURATION SECTION.

INPUT-OUTPUT SECTION.

DATA DIVISION. FILE SECTION.

WORKING-STORAGE SECTION. 01 AWS-ACCESS-KEY PIC X(20). 01 AWS-SECRET-KEY PIC X(40). 01 BUCKET-NAME PIC X(255).

PROCEDURE DIVISION. CREATE-BUCKET. MOVE AWS-ACCESS-KEY TO AWS-ACCESS-KEY-VAR MOVE AWS-SECRET-KEY TO AWS-SECRET-KEY-VAR MOVE BUCKET-NAME TO BUCKET-NAME-VAR INVOKE AWS-S3 "CREATE-BUCKET" USING AWS-ACCESS-KEY-VAR AWS-SECRET-KEY-VAR BUCKET-NAME-VAR



How is that impossible? Plenty of libraries are available for COBOL, especially if you use COBOL.NET


What is the COBOL SDK for AWS?


Probably someone sells one, or you'd just use the AWS SDK for .NET via COBOL.NET.


There are http client libraries for COBOL, and it’s easy to use http to make S3 api calls.


What is the technical impediment to writing one?


"Eww, Cobol"


Just ask ChatGPT to implement it.


That was ChatGPT's first response, yes.




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