Our staff would be happy to discuss your likely conversion needs with you and, if you are likely to need specialist assistance, put you in touch with companies experienced in helping people make the move from Micro Focus to NetCOBOL. If you want to bring VSAM data to SQL Server without having to change your COBOL code, consider using NeoData with NetCOBOL for.NET. Using SQL and ODBC is described in Getting Started and the Users Guide. Provided your database supports ODBC you should be able to access it directly from your NetCOBOL program. Note, however, that this technology has been deprecated because it is not supported under Microsoft Windows Vista operating systems. The Microsoft Merge Modules are available from the Downloads area of this site. However, as Microsoft has withdrawn support for most of them, and we no longer claim to support them, we would not recommend that you attempt to build applications for those operating systems using NetCOBOL for Windows. The early support for OO syntax made a big difference to the development of NetCOBOL for.NET which was able to take advantage of many of the OO COBOL constructs to give access to the exceptionally rich.NET framework collection of classes.
These features are implicit in OO programming and Fujitsu recognizes the importance many of its customers place on being able to gain greater return on their investments by reusing their code. Studies show that information hiding and encapsulation are the best tactics for obtaining code reuse. It is still the best business-logic language for the long-term and it is designed to work with massive amounts of data in the most effective way possible. Many companies that have taken excursions into 4 GLs, C, VB, C, Java, and other latest trend solutions, are realizing that although each of these new developments have their benefits they also have their downside in leaving a legacy that is tough to handle.ĬOBOL is designed for easy maintainability and has been around long enough to be supported by many maintenance tools. There is therefore a massive investment in both COBOL programs and COBOL programmers that needs to be supported. No one has found a silver-bullet solution for replacing these applications over night, and it does not look likely that this will happen in the foreseeable future.
How many COBOL vendors can you name that have comparable credentials for taking COBOL into the 21st Century. Ive only recently heard of NetCOBOL, how can I be sure that NetCOBOL will be around in 5 years time.
NetCOBOL also ships with sample COBOL applications that cover a wide array of NetCOBOL compiler functions.Īdditional samples can be downloaded from the Download Center. It provides an editor, compiler (NetCOBOL), interactive debugger, execution environment and other supporting tools.
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