Programming — Cobol — March 11th, 2024
COBOL to JOBOL? A Poor Choice for Modernization
This article digs into the common challenges of COBOL to Java conversion and some strategies to be employed to avoid the JOBOL pitfall.
March 11th, 2024 — Source
Programming — Cobol — November 15th, 2023
GCC COBOL Compiler Support Continues To Be Worked On
While not as popular as Rust or other languages these days, for COBOL enthusiasts and those continuing to maintain codebases in this 50's programming language, the out-of-tree GCC COBOL compiler support continues to be worked on in late 2023.
November 15, 2023 — Source
Programming — Cobol — October 27th, 2023
IBM launches AI-powered Watsonx for translating COBOL programs into Java code
Bringing mainframe computing into the cloud era
October 27, 2023 — Source
Programming — Cobol — Resources — A
Advanced COBOL for Structured and Object-Oriented Programming
Book by Gary DeWard Brown offers a pre-millennial update to the classic COBOL resource, focusing on client/server applications and featuring a hands-on tutorial on implementing object-oriented COBOL.
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Advanced Debugging System for CICS
ADS for CICS operates by menus, action codes, and free-form commands and debugs at both the source and object levels.
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Ajilon Services, Inc.
We can assist you with integrating your legacy systems with web-based technology, transforming applications to support new business objectives, and turning data into decision making information.
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All Things COBOL
COBOL programming site containing lecture notes, exercises with sample solutions, programming exam specifications with model answers, project specifications, examples and tutorials making a full COBOL course.
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Allexperts COBOL Q&Amp;A
Volunteer experts answer questions about programming in Cobol for free.
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ASYSCO's LION Technologies
Convert, migrate and replatform UNISYS mainframe COBOL applications to Windows three tier systems automatically, offering Browser and thin client interfaces to SQL database solutions.
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Programming — Cobol — Resources — C
C-Cubed Inc.
An authorized Micro Focus Technical Developer program member that provides seamless connectivity for MVS file access , MVS and Cobol subroutine access, and MVS database access.
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Caliber Data Training
Providing IT training to corporate clients since 1987. the curriculum includes COBOL, TSO/ISPF, Dialog Manager, DB2, SAS, Easytrieve, JCL, and Project Management.
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Cobol Access+
A gateway between cobol applications and database technology for unix and windows systems by RLDT.
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Cobol Bookstore, The
All books are organized into sections: beginner, intermediate, advanced, database, structured, object, mainframe, CICS and IMS, and PC and client/server materials.
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COBOL Compiler and COBOL Interpretor Directory
Links to several COBOL Compilers and Interpretors.
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COBOL Data Correlation and Documentation — Marble Computer
A COBOL software development company that provides COBOL data correlation and documentation products that help companies reduce COBOL maintenance time and costs. programs.
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Cobol Examples, Syntax and Functions
This site contains Cobol examples, syntax and functions for download.
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Cobol for GCC
A project to produce a free COBOL compiler compliant with the COBOL 85 Standard, integrated into the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC).
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Cobol for OS/390 Power Programming
by David Shelby Kirk at MVS Training site.
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Cobol Gold Mine
Integrated Logic Systems International celebrates the Cobol programming language with support, ideas and discoveries for thousands of professionals.
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Cobol Gold Mine at ILS International
Cobol has been pronounced dead and buried more often than enough yet comes back younger and more powerful than ever.
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COBOL Lectures and Tutorials
COBOL programming lectures and tutorials for course CS4312 from the University of Limerick. the programming lectures presented are delivered using Microsoft PowerPoint slides and may be downloaded as one 612K file.
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Cobol Newswire
Need to know what's happening in the world of Cobol? this site posts organized information, separated into new, compilers, links, organizations, tools, jobs, examples, objects, articles, training, reference and more.
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COBOL Programming Books
Descriptions of various COBOL programming books for purchase.
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COBOL ReSource
Provides a very complete VS environment in unix. It contains the Wang COBOL 85 compiler, a robust indexed/consecutive/relative file system ported from the premium Wang XDMS VS product, the Wang Procedure Interpreter, and a host of other components built by Wang from the original VS source code.
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COBOL Resources
Directory of COBOL learning resources.
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Cobol Service Directory
This site posts a number of links to official and unofficial Cobol-related information and services on the Web.
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COBOL Source Codes @ VyomWorld.com
COBOL projects and source codes.
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COBOL-IT
Offers an open source compiler and provides consulting, training, development and support services. Headquartered in Paris, France with offices in Brussels, Belgium.
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COBOL: IBM Technical Help Forum
Tek-Tips IBM COBOL technical support forum. Mutual help system for computer professionals.
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Compuware Corporation
Compuware Corporation, with revenues of over $1 billion, is a leading provider of software and professional services that help IT professionals develop, implement and support business applications.
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CyberMetrics
PowerStructure COBOL flowchart and structure chart tool generates structure charts from COBOL source automatically. Get an intuitive feel for COBOL program logic nearly instantly or draw your own flow diagrams and flowcharts.
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Programming — Cobol — Resources — D
Datatek
Automated COBOL services. Examples illustrate the types of problems Datatek has helped customers solve.
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Programming — Cobol — Resources — F
Flexus Cobol Page
Automatically migrate existing Cobol screen definitions to windows or open systems.
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Fujitsu NetCOBOL
COBOL compilers for Windows, .NET, Solaris, HP-UX, and Linux along with Mainframe migration tools.
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Programming — Cobol — Resources — G
Group3Developments
Migration specialists from the Unisys CTOS operating system to Windows. ConneCT-OS is a series of tools and products that will take legacy COBOL programs up to Windows/Unix.
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Programming — Cobol — Resources — I
IBM COBOL Publications
COBOL and related publications are available here in various formats including PDF, BookManager, and various zipped file formats. you can view or download publications directly or you can order publications by phone.
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IBM Redbooks
The source for finding complete IBM redbooks and redbooks-in-progress (redpieces) on the World Wide Web. you can view and download the complete contents of books online.
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IBM VisualAge COBOL
IBM VisualAge delivers innovative and open solutions to professional programmers to rapidly exploit network middleware while developing, extending and managing scalable business and web applications.
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ICOBOL and VXCOBOL
Egan Systems, Inc. develops the ICOBOL and VXCOBOL programming environments
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Programming — Cobol — Resources — J
Jerome Garfunkel Website
International COBOL consultant and author.
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Programming — Cobol — Resources — L
Lion Developer
Replacing Unisys COBOL or LINC/EAE code and develop in an open environment with any database.
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Programming — Cobol — Resources — M
Mainframe, Midrange and Micro Computers
Large collection of links and resources for enterprise computing with an emphasis on MVS and COBOL.
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Micro Focus
Offering a scalable suite of COBOL development environments for the effective integration, extension, development and deployment of enterprise applications.
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Programming — Cobol — Resources — O
Obtaining a COBOL Grammar from Legacy Code for Reengineering Purposes
Article by Mark van den Brand, Alex Sellink, Chris Verhoef. It include VS COBOL II Grammar.
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OpenCOBOL
An implementation of a COBOL compiler with downloads and forums.
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Programming — Cobol — Resources — P
PowerStructure — COBOL flowcharting and analysis tool.
COBOL flowcharting and analysis tools. Generate COBOL flowchart / COBOL structure chart of your ANSI COBOL source automatically with PowerStructure.
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Progeni Corporation
Progeni specializes in tools/services to solve Y2K problems and convert/migrate existing COBOL applications to open information environments and e-business platforms.
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Programming — Cobol — Resources — R
RainCode
A quality control and assessment tool that can take virtually any COBOL code available today, measure it against sophisticated user-defined compliance rules, and even perform automated patches on the source code. Also online COBOL restructuring services.
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Redvers Consulting
Information on the COBOL XML interface, Cloaking Device, Data Encryption and Data Compression products. Free trial versions are offered.
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Programming — Cobol — Resources — S
SoftwareMining
Tools and services for Business Rule extraction from COBOL and CA-IDEAL code, translation of COBOL and COOL:Gen to Java or C#, COBOL rehosting and refactoring, HTML documentation of existing code.
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Source Recovery Company
The Source Recovery Company,LLC recovers missing COBOL or Assembler source code for the IBM mainframe environment. SRC can help you save time, effort, cost, money and minimize your overall Year 2000 project risk.
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Standard Object-Oriented Cobol
Book by Ned Chapin. Covers the new syntax in COBOL-97 and stresses the design that must be done before a COBOL program is written. the text builds on software engineering principles and practices combined with object-oriented technology to enable effective use of this latest form of COBOL.
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Successful COBOL Upgrades: Highlights and Programming Techniques
Book by Young Chae and Steven Rogers. offers a concise primer on how newer versions of COBOL differ from older ones still in circulation, outlines programming techniques for new features, and highlights advantages, obstacles, and surprises programmers may find along the way.
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Programming — Cobol — Resources — T
TANDEM to ANSI C Conversion Suite
AEI's complete TANDEM SCOBOL, COBOL-85, and TAL to ANSI C conversion automation tool.
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The COBOL Center Bookstore
Learning resources for COBOL and COBOL programming.
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The SimoTime Cobol Connection
Find out how to do bit-manipulation, display a field in hex-dump format, access a parameter provided from JCL and other tricks. It is all done in Cobol and the source code may be downloaded.
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The Wit and Wisdom of Grace Hopper
Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.
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TinyCOBOL Project
The TinyCOBOL Project is a COBOL compiler being actively developed by members of the free software community. It is being developed on the Linux OS, using a mix of C, LEX/YACC. It generates GNU assembler code, thus requires the GNU assembler and linker programs to create an executable binary.
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Programming — Cobol — Resources — X
XMLBooster
A XML parser generator for COBOL.
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Programming — Cobol — Resources — Z
ZingCOBOL: a Beginner's Guide to COBOL Programming
Offer the basics of COBOL including debugging code and program samples.
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