It's generally seen as impolite to address new threads to individuals on public forums.
Regarding your question:
- FTP is not a "web service". Web services use HTTP; FTP is a different protocol entirely. Neither is sending email, which uses the SMTP protocol (though there are web services for sending email). Nor is scraping web pages. Web services are HTTP interfaces designed to be used by programs.
- Visual COBOL does not include support for FTP. Some customers have used the third-party, open-source libcurl library for that purpose. There are other options, depending on platform.
- Similarly, you would have to use third-party components to send email (unless you find a suitable third-party web service for that) and scraping web pages.
- Visual COBOL does have support for web services; that's one of the major product features. It's described at length in the documentation and there are tutorials and samples included with the product.