Visual Cobol

Visual Cobol R3

In the version of Visual Cobol R3 the possibility of print preview of the programs on Kobola which are executed in the Java virtual machine (JVM) is supported.

The company did a great job on adaptation of this legacy language to modern computer environments. Now it can quite be used for new projects.

The application written to Visual Cobol can work without changes both in Unix or Linux, and in the environment of JVM and also to be executed by the placed service based on Azure or on the Microsoft platform. NET 4.0.

The previous version of Visual Cobol represented the connected module for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. It gave the chance to users of the Visual Studio to write programs on Kobola. Version 3 is offered also in the form of the connected module to Eclipse IDE integrated development environment, in addition to the Visual Studio.

For applications based on Azure, in Visual Cobol an opportunity, characteristic of the Visual Studio of 2010, to publish supplements in Azure cloud is used. (Azure is the platform of providing applications in the form of services offered by Microsoft corporation and its partners.)

For users of Linux and Unix in Visual Cobol R3 the function called by Development Hub which allows to write programs on Kobola is supported, using means of the desktop PC, and to compile and debug the code by the remote machine.

Technical print preview of program execution in the environment of JVM represents trial execution of this opportunity which will be completely implemented in the version of Visual Cobol R4 (its release is planned for May). Micro Focus developed the compiler for Kobol who will transform the code on Kobola to Java bytecode, providing a possibility of its execution on the JVM platform.

The Kobol language was created in 1959 for simplification of writing of programs due to the use of the syntax more clear to nonspecialists in programming. The applications written on Kobola are applied and now. By estimates of the company, about 220 billion code lines work on mainframes and other systems.