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Latest Language In Web Services: Cobol
News Cobol, the biggest established language in the old-fashioned mainframe environment is set to make the jump to the new world of Web services. Despite Cobol's age, and the age of many of the programs written in Cobol, it is not being replaced, said...
[November 7, 2002, 8:46]
COBOL Keeps On Rolling Along
Blog Comparatively rare are the times when we hear about COBOL programming these days - unless it’s from a vendor or systems integration specialist perhaps. Rarer still are the times that I speak to developers who say they really want to up their COBOL...
[July 9, 2008, 16:21]
Cobol Working Storage Code Aid
Downloads Simple program to generate the source code for Cobol working storage section using in reports. Just write the look of your report using a text editor; run the program and specify the filename you just have edited, the output filename, and you are...
[December 28, 2006, 22:01]
Easing Cobol Into A Web-shaped World
Talkback After seeing the huge amount of Java Junk that's accumulating out there, I'm not so inclined to be snotty about COBOL any more. COBOL code has stayed around because it's possible to write reasonably good code without a genius IQ (read: COBOL...
[February 4, 2004, 19:57]
RM Cobol Data Entry Program Generator
Downloads This will produce a complete program for data entry and maintenance for RM Cobol file. Save hours with this utility, just fill a template file, specifying the display, fields and file names, and you'll get the source code that when compiled without...
[January 16, 2007, 5:01]
Enabling COBOL For SOA Participation
White Papers Acucorp is a leading provider of application development solutions that modernize and enhance business-critical COBOL applications. The company needed a way to re-use and extend existing COBOL systems within Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA).
[April 4, 2007, 1:00]
MS, Micro Focus Team To Shine COBOL Apps
News Despite the rush to languages such as C, C++ and Java, Micro Focus claims over 150 billion lines of COBOL code are still in use today, often running mission critical applications in very large organisations.
[February 5, 1998, 10:19]
IDE Cobol
Downloads IDE Cobol is RAD Environment to make applications using the older MS-Cobol 80. IDE Cobol is a freeware software. Was develop to academic use but could be used how as you want. Multi-language (Brazilian Portuguese and English).
[July 18, 2006, 21:16]
Extending COBOL To SOA, Web Services And Beyond: A Look At The Architecture
White Papers With the Micro Focus product line, organizations have the best tools to extend COBOL applications and support the flexibility demands of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). This paper takes a look at how COBOL transactions are transformed into...
[March 10, 2007, 0:00]
Modernize Legacy COBOL To AllFusion Gen Model-Driven Architecture
White Papers Attend this webcast to learn how to modernize the legacy COBOL applications to new platforms and architectures using AllFusion Gen.
[November 28, 2004, 23:00]
Easing Cobol Into A Web-shaped World
News They say that the secret to integration isn't necessarily to buy a dedicated integration platform: instead, they support techniques like wrapping and componentisation, which allow Cobol system functionality to get reborn into a more open and cross...
[February 4, 2004, 12:45]
Web-enabling COBOL Applications
News Many enterprises have generated COBOL applications involving huge investments in both money and resources over the last 20 years. Organisations need to deliver their existing COBOL business logic and extend it to the Web.
[August 14, 2002, 19:25]
Moving Your COBOL Assets To Microsoft .NET: Fujitsu NetCOBOL For .NET
White Papers This paper outlines the options available on the market and discusses a new solution - Fujitsu Software's NetCOBOL for .NET - and its approach to moving COBOL assets over to Microsoft's .NET platform.
[June 15, 2007, 1:00]
Easing Cobol Into A Web-shaped World
Talkback The new COBOL and all of the extensions may be the greatest thing ever, but without an 800-pound corporate gorilla to champion it, market it, and generally beat the drum, it simply won't fly. Plus, you may want to think about if the new plugins are...
[July 21, 2005, 21:11]
Why You Should Hire The COBOL Guy
News The COBOL veteran had to fight for processor time against dozens of other programmers and hundreds of users. And to work effectively in an environment like this, programmers had to have certain qualities that you can pretty much count on finding in...
[November 29, 2002, 10:03]
What Does The Future Hold For COBOL?
News Although technologies such as Java and XML continue to dominate headlines, and new architectures like WebSphere and .NET gain momentum, the need to improve return on IT investment is forcing organisations to find better ways to develop, transform...
[August 8, 2002, 11:48]
Object Oriented Programming In COBOL 2000
White Papers This document describes the new language elements in a very general way. For better understanding, it also gives an overview of the concepts of OOP. Please understand, that this can be in no way a complete presentation of this complex matter.
[September 5, 2003, 1:32]
100 Years Of Grace Hopper
News For most people who work in IT, the programming language Cobol is as dead as the dodo. Yet Grace Hopper, the woman credited with establishing Cobol as the language of business, would be pleased to know that 100 years after her birth, the language...
[December 8, 2006, 12:37]
Net Express With .NET
Downloads Micro Focus Net Express with .NET is the market-leading COBOL development environment for extending core business processes to the .NET Framework and other distributed platforms. Powerful integration with Microsoft Visual Studio and the .NET...
[July 18, 2008, 22:31]
New Tech Degree To Include Legacy App Migration
News A degree course that aims to tackle the perceived lack of technologists with business skills will also cover the issue of migrating from legacy applications such as Cobol. Cobol migration specialist Micro Focus announced on Wednesday that it has...
[August 22, 2007, 17:22]
