[belter]

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

[lmm]

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

[belter]

What is the COBOL SDK for AWS?

[lmm]

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

[antonvs]

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

[roperj]

What is the technical impediment to writing one?

[EamonnMR]

"Eww, Cobol"

[viscanti]

Just ask ChatGPT to implement it.

[taylorius]

That was ChatGPT's first response, yes.