Visual COBOL is a contemporary development suite for Microsoft Visual Studio or Eclipse that allows mainframe developers to maintain, develop and modernize mainframe applications environments regardless of whether these are to be deployed back on the mainframe or onto an alternative platform.
Visual COBOL supports IBM COBOL, IBM PL/I, IBM Assembler, IBM CICS, IBM IMS, IBM JCL, IBM DB2, IBM z/OS file formats and common batch utilities, including SORT. This means that you can develop and maintain the core mainframe online and batch applications under
Visual COBOL. You can then deploy these applications back on the mainframe or migrate them onto one of the
Micro Focus Linux, UNIX or Windows-based production platforms.
Micro Focus offers
Visual COBOL with the following licensing options that unlock different functionality:
- Micro Focus
Visual COBOL
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Visual COBOL is for customers looking to develop and modernize mainframe applications in a productive and modern Windows-based development environment, targeted for deployment onto an alternate server platform. Developers have the choice of either the Visual Studio or the Eclipse-based IDE and development and test tools are provided for all target environments currently supported by
Micro Focus.
- Micro Focus
Visual COBOL Connect
- Visual COBOL Connect is for customers looking to use modern and productive Eclipse-based tooling to develop mainframe applications directly on the mainframe. Close integration to mainframe configuration management systems and the ability to easily customize the Eclipse-based IDE to include mainframe-based tools and processes means developers can take full advantage of modern development tools without having to learn new development processes.
- Micro Focus
Visual COBOL for IBM zEnterprise
- Visual COBOL for IBM zEnterprise gives customers the choice to develop directly on the mainframe or under Windows. Mainframe applications can be developed, maintained and modernized regardless of where they will be deployed, either back onto the mainframe or onto an alternative server environment. Support is provided for both the Visual Studio and Eclipse-based IDEs and for all the development and test tools for every target environment currently supported by
Micro Focus - including z/Linux, AIX and x86 environments.
Visual COBOL for IBM zEnterprise combines all the capabilities of
Visual COBOL Connect and
Visual COBOL.
Full mainframe integration and the Application Workflow Manager are only available in the Eclipse-based IDE.
Note:
The
Visual COBOL Personal Edition option is not available with this release. You can use the Personal Edition with
Visual COBOL 2.1 Update 1 - you can register for it on the
Visual COBOL Personal Edition section on the
Micro Focus Web site.
If you are new to
Visual COBOL:
We recommend you start with the
Getting Started. This includes a number of tutorials that will walk you through the major components of the product and will provide you with information about how to use the IDE to develop mainframe applications. The
Getting Started includes the following items:
- A basic tutorial, which uses a mainframe application to guide you through using the IDE to develop, build and debug both an online and batch application.
- Additional tutorials that show you how to use the IDE to develop different types of applications - for example, how to create and use different mainframe projects that contain CICS, IMS, PL/I and JCL.
The
ここからはじめよう section also includes:
- Information about the sample programs available with this product and about the Samples Browser application.
- An overview of how to move existing mainframe applications created with earlier Micro Focus products into
Visual COBOL.
You should also read the
Help on Help topic for details on how to use this documentation.