Acucorp, Inc. - Acucorp's core products include a powerful ANSI-85 COBOL compiler, a COBOL graphical user interface development system, seamless interfaces to RDBMS, and client/server technology. Acucorp offers application development tools with first-class service that solve critical business issues, extend the life of legacy COBOL applications, and improve programmer productivity as valued by worldwide Fortune-class corporations, government agencies, and COBOL software houses.
Advanced COBOL for Structured and Object-Oriented Programming - Book by Gary DeWard Brown. A timely, pre-millennial update to the classic COBOL resource. This classic reference has been updated to address the current realities of life as a COBOL programmer, focusing on client/server applications and featuring a hands-on tutorial on implementing object-oriented COBOL.
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. It supports all OS/390(MVS) and VSE versions of CICS, and Assembler, PL/1, C/370 and all versions of COBOL.
Ajilon Services, Inc. - Our collaborative approach is designed to leverage your existing investment in your legacy systems and staff. 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.
Allexperts COBOL Q&A - Volunteer experts answer your detailed one-on-one questions about programming in Cobol for free! Maybe we can help you!
AMS Training Services - American Management Systems' Training Services group has successfully delivered the highest caliber training programs for COBOL and other application development professionals and end users for the past 25 years.
Barker Pacific Group - Specialists in IMS, DB2, CICS and COBOL Training.
C-Cubed Inc. - An authorized Micro Focus Technical Developer program member that provides seamless connectivity for MVS file access (all file types: VSAM, QSAM, PDS, Librarian, etc.), MVS and COBOL subroutine access (calling MVS load modules from MF Animator and returning results), and MVS database access (IDMS, IMS, Datacom, etc.)
CA-Migrate/COBOL - A COBOL analysis, transformation and migration system designed to provide a smooth and cost-effective migration to IBM's VS COBOL II or COBOL/370 language from a variety of COBOL languages. CA-Migrate/COBOL makes migration to VS COBOL II and COBOL/370 more feasible with its automated conversion and reformatting facility. It also provides detailed analysis information about your COBOL inventory.
COBOL Book - Working COBOL-2 programs from simple logic to three level control break and batch file update/match/merge. Validating data, Table handling, SEARCH, Indexing, VSAM KSDS, variable format files. Includes diskette containing all programs, data files and JCL.
COBOL Center - The COBOL Home Page for COBOL: standards, programming, reengineering, tools, skills improvement, sample code, and jobs. This site dedicated to COBOL and to those with an investment in it. Many Internet sites provide information on COBOL.
COBOL Code Inspector - Catalog and inventory ANSI and IBM COBOL source code, programs and copybooks which need to be compiled together, copybooks used in several different programs, and unused files. Analyze and change the names of variables across all files. Special features are included to support Y2K issues. Runs on Windows 95/98/NT (demo available for download.)
COBOL Compiler and COBOL Interpretor Directory - Links to several COBOL Compilers and Interpretors.
COBOL Developer News - COBOL Developer News is a newsletter for the COBOL development community from Fujitsu Software Corporation. The newsletter covers topical issues such as late-breaking COBOL news, new products, hints and tips, and user success stories.
COBOL Examples, Syntax and Functions - This site contains COBOL examples, syntax and functions for download. Includes examples for standard COBOL users and some that are specific to Micro Focus (Merant) NetExpress.
Cobol for OS/390 Power Programming - by David Shelby Kirk at MVS Training site.
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. Surf the pages of COBOL Gold Mine and find out why COBOL is still the language that makes the business world go round.
COBOL Jobs - Job listing service for COBOL programmers.
COBOL Language - This document provides the X/Open definition of the COBOL Language which is that set of COBOL Language facilities that programmers should follow when using COBOL compilers on conformant systems. The X/Open definition is based on the ISO 1989:1985 Programming Languages - COBOL standard but contains none of the optional modules of standard COBOL.
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.
COBOL Portal - resource site for Cobol developers. Cobol related news, programming tips, resources and everything Cobol.
COBOL Programming Books - Descriptions of various COBOL programming books for purchase.
COBOL Programming Language: Hello World! - Sample COBOL source code for beginners.
COBOL Programming tools - Freeware system-wide COBOL analysis tool. Search utilities for programming languages.
COBOL Programming: Lectures, Tutorials, Examples - Contains COBOL lecture notes, programming exercises with sample solutions, a large number of sample programs and two full tutorials on the COBOL Report Writer. It supports the COBOL programming modules taught at the University of Limerick.
COBOL Reference and Example Site - Contains syntax reference and examples of new COBOL II verbs.
COBOL Report Writer - Introduction, Tutorial and Reference for COBOL's report writer feature (including latest developments) plus assistance and information for users of SPC Systems' software.
COBOL to e-Business Migration Services - Products and services for Enterprise Application Integration. Our toolset enables transformation of COBOL based applications to modern eBusiness platforms such as Java and Borland Delphi.
COBOL: IBM Technical Help Forum - Tek-Tips IBM COBOL technical support forum. Mutual help system for computer professionals.
CobolScript - COBOL85 Scripting Language - CobolScript is a COBOL85 based scripting language for CGI development.
COBOLTools.com - A selection of COBOL programming tools for systems and application development.
Computers and Common Sense - We train people to program computers in languages such as COBOL, CICS, DB2, IMS, SQL, TSO, JCL, MVS, Visual Basic, Access, and HTML.
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.
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.
Data Processing Technical FAQ - Dedicated to mainframe, legacy programming FAQ topics including COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, SAS, SQL and IDMS. Meant to be a source and resource for interview questions and answers on common data processing topics.
Deskware, Inc. - CobolScript is a COBOL-based programming language with specialized syntax for CGI web programming, networking, and file processing. Deskware also makes VACE Maintenance Workbench, a code maintenance utility.
Developer.com COBOL Directories - Search Developer.com's extensive directories for the latest COBOL news and many more IT developer topics.
Down and Dirty COBOL - A book designed for individuals who want an introduction to COBOL and will quickly allow them to write effective code. It will explain the basics you need to know to program effectively in COBOL and produce good, executable structured code.
Easy ToolKit - COBOL application generator toolkit and portable COBOL programs.
EDS COGEN 2000 - COGEN saves valuable resources because of its knowledge-based tools approach to converting existing, operational legacy systems and automating business software evolution.
Emendo Software Group - The COSMOS/ES migration tool offers graphical documentation and an object repository for Code and Data Analysis, Metrics, Cross Referencing, Slicing, Tracing, Business Rules Componentization, Euro and Internet Migration.
ESI Home - ESI specializes in Windows-based COBOL development tools for creating client/server applications for open, multi-platform environments including Win95, NT, UNIX, IBM, and Unisys.
Flexus COBOL Page - Automatically migrate existing COBOL screen definitions to windows or open systems. Flexus offers user interface conversion tools and services for COBOL programmers.
Fool-Proof - The Universal COBOL Compiler (UCC) is a general purpose COBOL compiler designed to comply with the 1985 ANSI X3.23 COBOL specification. To provide the widest possible initial availability of our compiler, it has been designed from the ground up to be completely platform and operating system independent. To provide this level of portability, the complete UCC development system consists of two separate components: a compiler and a platform-specific runtime.
Fujitsu COBOL 4.0 - GUI COBOL development for Windows & Unix
Fujitsu COBOL Developer Tools - Fujitsu COBOL is a complete application development environment for both Windows and UNIX platforms.
GNU Cobol - A project to make a full Cobol-85 compiler, available for free under the GPL. A minimal Cobol-to-C translator is now available
GNU COBOL2C - The GNU COBOL2C project is an effort to create a compiler for the COBOL language which will have the ability to interact with existing Cobol libraries and data files. The compiler which will be created will be released under the GNU Public License.
Grace Hopper - The late RADM Grace Murray Hopper USN (ret) served the United States Navy and its computer (co-inventor of COBOL) and communications communities for many years. It's only fitting that her personal homepage and that of the ship named in her honor reside here with us, the people who served with her.
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.
Hello World Program - COBOL source code for this traditional, beginner's programming exercise.
HP3000 COBOL Consultants - Receive technical assistance from HP3000 COBOL experts having over 50 years of combined experience in business applications using COBOL, V/3000, TurboImage, KSAM, Cognos tools, Suprtool, Reflection and more.
IBM COBOL Family - IBM's Focus On COBOL monthly newsletter. Each month we will present articles, product information, technical information, and other topics of interest for our COBOL customers.
IBM COBOL FAQs - FAQs covering the IBM COBOL product family including VisualAge, client/server COBOL, object-oriented COBOL, and CICS.
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.
IBM United Kingdom Laboratories, Hursley Park - One of IBM's major development laboratories. Its public FTP site contains source code for COBOL, PL/1, REXX, Assembler and other languages.
IBM VisualAge COBOL - IBM VisualAge delivers innovative and open solutions to professional programmers to rapidly exploit network middleware while developing, extending and managing scaleable business and web applications.
ICOBOL and VXCOBOL - Egan Systems, Inc. develops the ICOBOL and VXCOBOL programming environments
Institute for Certification of Computing Professionals - The ICCP has dedicated itself to the establishment of high professional standards for the computer industry. Under the direction of our 9 constituent societies and 18 affiliate societies, we actively promote these standards by offering the only broadly applicable and internationally recognized certification program in the profession.
Intercomp Ltd. - Intercomp's eMaker is a family of automated software tools for legacy system renewal which modernize COBOL based applications of both mainframe and non-mainframe environments. eMaker features automated legacy analysis and re-engineering, extraction of valuable business rules from legacy applications to Java objects and Enterprise Java Beans (EJB), COBOL to Java migration, and e-commerce implementation.
JCL Computer Logic - Software house and consultants specializing in COBOL, legacy systems, Y2K, and programming (COBOL, VB, Delphi and more.)
Jerome Garfunkel Website - International COBOL consultant and author.
Language Reference Manual - Online PERCobol Enterprise Edition V2.2 Language Reference Manual for COBOL-85 Standard ANSI X3.23B.
LegacyJ Software - LegacyJ software tools bring together the capabilities of COBOL and Java technology with the flexibility of Java for Client/Server and Web applications.
Mainframe Computer Books - Do you need to keep up on the latest in mainframe developments? The information you find in a book is worth much more than what you pay for it. Mainframe Computer Books listed here cover REXX, COBOL, JCL, SQL and DB2.
Mainframe, Midrange and Micro Computers - Large collection of links and resources for enterprise computing with an emphasis on MVS and COBOL.
Mastering COBOL - A book for experienced programmers who want to tackle the challenge of modifying legacy code. Unique in its presentation, Mastering COBOL not only provides an annotated and exemplified language reference, it introduces the reader to the other major components typically found in legacy environments including JCL, CICS, IMS and SQL.
MERANT Micro Focus COBOL - MERANT Micro Focus distributed computing, application transformation, and mainframe development tools help customers develop, extend and integrate enterprise applications. Extend legacy COBOL assets to the Web and other distributed platforms.
MERANT Micro Focus Object COBOL Developer Suite - Micro Focus Object COBOL Developer Suite for UNIX, including a state-of-the-art cobol compiler, provides an integrated environment for developing and deploying client/server and standalone applications on a wide range of UNIX platforms
MerchantStore - Cobol - Resource information for the Cobol.
Micro Focus COBOL Portal: COBOL Books - The one-stop shop for COBOL related news, programming tips, resources and everything COBOL.
MIke Murach and Associates - An online catalog of Mainframe book titles. Subjects include MVS/JCL, COBOL, DB2, CICS, VSAM, and MVS/TSO.
Multi-Edit by American Cybernetics - A programming editor with full support for Java, COBOL, JavaScript, PERL, HTML, CSS, VBScript, ASP, C++, Delphi and more.
MvsHelp.com - This site is intended primarily for the mainframe programmer and includes COBOL links, IBM manuals and other professional reference resources.
Netron Inc. - Provider of business and IT transformation solutions, focused on accelerating e-business through legacy systems renewal. Mine legacy COBOL systems for business rules and find component candidates rapidly.
Object-Z Systems - Home of CobolReport.com, CobolUniversity.com, Object-Z Publishing, COBOL standards, Object-Oriented COBOL, articles, reviews, tools, online chat, COBOL books, code, links, and samples.
Objective COBOL - The Objective COBOL compiler recognizes most of the syntax of traditional COBOL with several differences: You can perform arithmetical operations within any instruction admitting an expression, there's no need to use the COMPUTE instruction, although it is implemented; There are no areas, Area A or Area B, you can place code anywhere; You cannot place code out of a subroutine, a Windows program doesn't start in a determined point, the code is executed in subroutines called events; Now you can create procedures, functions, use parameters, create local variables and use recursion.
Objective Systems - Provides ways to port and improve old COBOL applications using a new compiler that supports the ANSI X3.23-1985 and also incorporate many of the features of newer languages. Customers can create and maintain COBOL applications that compete with applications created in other languages like Delphi or Visual Basic.
PaceTheNet - Cobol on the Internet - A innovative web site based on an collection of visual links to Cobol sites by a Cobol user for Cobol users.
PeerLogic, Inc. - PeerLogic, Inc. provides enterprise class software and professional services to support mission-critical business systems. Our software solutions combine best-of-breed technologies that are open and flexible and enable customers to build and deploy powerful, enterprise-wide, component-based distributed applications that are scalable, flexible, reliable, and independent of underlying technologies.
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.
RainCode - RainCode is 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.
Re-Engineering Maintenance Conversions Ltd - Specialists in re-engineering of COBOL applications. RMC has experience of working in partnership with over 40 organizations world wide, processing more than 200 million lines of COBOL code. Our clients cover a diverse spectrum including Finance and Banking, Insurance, Government, Manufacturing and Petrochemical Industries.
Relativity Technologies - A leader in legacy to e-Business transformation with RescueWare, a product which transforms COBOL based applications to modern e-Business platforms such as Java, C++, and Visual Basic.
Remote Host Development with IBM COBOL or IBM PL/I - This IBM tutorial guides you through the process of configuring your environment for remote development with IBM COBOL or IBM PL/I.
Richard Yorke Cobol Training - Training courses in cobol software development.[Computers: Programming: Languages: Cobol]
Rob Anderson's COBOL Home Page - COBOL information and links.
Siber Systems - The CobolTransformer Toolkit product family contains COBOL parser, COBOL Program Tree, and COBOL Code Generator that together form a base on which all other CobolTransformer products are built. COBOL Data File Readers read COBOL data files and convert them to various non-COBOL data formats.
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.
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.
Steeple Software Services - Specialists in converting legacy mainframe COBOL systems to PC platforms with full GUI interfaces. Experience across most market sectors, providing tailored solutions for discrete business problems.
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.
Sun Valley Systems - Collection of COBOL programs, routines and files that have been written over some thirty years of programming and have been placed into the Public Domain by Judson McClendon.
Synkronix PERCobol - Develop in COBOL, Deploy in Java. PERCobol compiler for the Java environment and BlueJ GUI builder for Java and PERCobol. Fully supports ANSI-85 COBOL plus many Java related extensions for programming graphics, the web, and data connectivity.
TANDEM To ANSI C Conversion Suite - AEI's complete TANDEM SCOBOL, COBOL-85, and TAL to ANSI C conversion automation tool.
Technical Exporters International - Team of computer programmers specializing in artificial intelligence, languages such as Visual Basic, Visual C++, Access, Crystal Reports, and COBOL. Their vast multifaceted programming experiences lead to the development of CYA (COBOL Year 2000 Analyzer.)
The AS400 Network - AS/400 resources for programmers of COBOL, C, C++, PASE, Domino, RPG, networking and network security. Includes AS/400 news, articles, events, jobs, and educational resources,
The COBOL Center Bookstore - Learning resources for COBOL and COBOL programming.
The COBOL Portal - COBOL the way you want it ... lively, informative, and opinionated. CobolReport.com includes online COBOL classes and cutting-edge COBOL books (written by CobolReport.com editors).
The Programming Sharehouse - A collection of COBOL resources including links, tools, FAQs and source code.
The Software Revolution, Inc - Unilizes state-of-the-art program understanding tools for automating the analysis, migration, and transformation of legacy systems.
The Wit and Wisdom of Grace Hopper - Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.
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.
TurboTune - Critical Path Software is an Efficiency Tuning and Optimization company specializing in applications running on mainframe computers. TurboTune analyzes COBOL/VSAM (and other) applications and reduces CPU consumption, frees up MIPS, recovers wasted DASD, improves online response time, shortens batch windows, and improves Cache Controllers.
Tyree & Associates Software and Services - A computer software development company based in Thailand that develops, modifies and tests COBOL software applications.
Using Fujitsu PowerCOBOL - A site dedicated to providing Tips, Questions, News and Links for PowerCOBOL.
VS COBOL II grammar Version 1.0.3 - The following rules define the context-free syntax of VS COBOL II using a variant of EBNF (Extended Backus Naur Form).
What Is COBOL--A Definition - Page defines COBOL (COmmon Business Oriented Language), the most popular and widely-used business programming language today in terms of running programs.
Year 2000 in a Nutshell - Book by Norman Shakespeare. Addresses the Year 2000 computer dilemma, providing a compact compendium of solutions and reference information useful for addressing the problem. Includes a comprehensive COBOL quick reference, plus reference for date-related functions.
Year 2000 Parable - Humorous tale of a Y2K COBOL consultant who has himself cryogenically frozen in order to avoid the Big Day.
ZingCOBOL: A Beginner's Guide to COBOL Programming - The aim of the ZingCOBOL pages is to give the basics of the COBOL programming language for anyone who knows a little bit about computers (not much) and preferably will at least have come across another programming language such as BASIC or Pascal.