Try opencobol. You may have more success.

Some cobols like rm COBOL require a literal custom Linux header in order to work with SQL. Others work with odbcs natively.

It might be my area. Most COBOL infa got replaced or is on life support. But I did happen to see the good stuff once in a while. There’s a reason it was not touched.

A small part of me thinks it might be the place to retire. Working on old code bases.

I used to work with COBOL. The language isn’t terrible, it’s the 40+ years of no context changes that suck. It even works with SQL… although the most common configuration is using a flat file.

Thank you for this.

When the worst case is to lose your job and never deal with the legacy code again.

I had the same issue. I had to turn off AI features and it started working again. Specifically it stopped working on a peice of legacy code that had hundreds of thousands of lines of code all in one file. No idea what version of vscode but it was fairly recent.