IBM VisualAge Cobol Enterprise Edition 2.2

IBM VisualAge Cobol Enterprise Edition 2.2 ... traditional and cutting-edge COBOL programming.

VisualAge COBOL provides a set of visual tools to edit, compile, and debug your programs, integrated in a project environment. When you set up your application project, these tools are available from the pop-up menus of your files. The files can reside on either your workstation or the host. The VisualAge COBOL remote functions lets you work with your host applications from your workstation. It provides a seamless workstation environment for the development of host programs. From the workstation, you can edit, compile, and debug COBOL applications on the host, even applications using DL/I calls. Files are directly loaded from the host to the workstation without the need for explicit downloading and workstation naming and mapping. Communication to the host is provided using TCP/IP or Advanced Program-to-Program Communication (APPC).

Not only does VisualAge COBOL offer the tools you need to efficiently and quickly develop applications of the future, it enables you to pull your legacy applications in to the future with you. You do not have to scrape your old applications and write new code. Using VisualAge COBOL, you can analyze your applications to develop migration plans, study your program code to find what ails it, convert older levels of code to the latest COBOL standards, structure unstructured code, and develop detailed report identifying potential year-2000 problems.