Well met,
Alexey Balakin has developed a pretty nice library for scientific graphic plots. MathGL. Alexey has done a wonderful job exposing the C bindings to the C++ internals, and that opens the door to linking COBOL data to a scientific graph engine.
Explorations, starting with
and leading up to
documented at http://sourceforge.net/p/open-cobol/discussion/cobol/thread/946a76a3/ (with links to larger images)
MathGL could come in handy for visualizing COBOL data. To start there is a COBOL function, mathgl-script.
Pass in some image details, a dataset describing x,y,z vectors, and MathGL script, to produce some nice visuals.
Cheers,
Brian
