COBOL Computer Language Resources

COBOL is an antique programming language that was used extensively for mainframe business applications. During the Y2K panic, COBOL programmers could name their price to go in and remove the millennium bug problems in systems that could not be ported to more modern machines in time.

Applications Servers and COBOL
Enabling legacy applications for web services.
Cevela MX COBOL 3.0
User friendly simple and compact compiler in MS Windows environment for small tasks and training of basic programming skills in Cobol language.
COBOL
Information from Wikipedia.
COBOL12
Freeware COBOL 16-bit Compiler for Video Mode 12H.
Cobol 6.50 Compiler for DOS
Free compiler from Freebyte.com.
COBOL Café
 Resource library, discussion forums, blogs, hubs.
The COBOL Center
News, event information, tutorials, compilers, tools, learning resources.
Cobol Coders: Going, Going, Gone?
Article from Computerworld.
COBOL Compilers
Information from IBM.
Cobol For GCC
COBOL For GCC is a project to produce a free COBOL compiler compliant with the COBOL 85 Standard, integrated into the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC).
COBOL IDE Project
The COBOL IDE for Eclipse Subproject will build a fully functional COBOL Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for the Eclipse platform. Our focus is COBOL application development on Windows/ Solaris/ Linux for deployment on each platform. We are interested in participation from others who would like to extend our work in other directions.
COBOL Portal
News, downloads, training, technical resources, user groups, white pages, COBOL job exchange, discussion forum.
COBOL Programming
Tutorials, lectures, exercises, examples.
The COBOL Programming Language
History, language Features, areas of application, sample programs.
COBUG
An information channel for COBOL software products, services, solutions, technology, education, and networking with other COBOL professionals.
Consolidation with COBOL and Java
This white paper discusses the topic of how a business with both Traditional and Modern technologies, COBOL and Java, can simplify its development and deployment landscapes.
Creating COBOL from the .NET Framework
This paper provides guidelines for interpreting the .NET Framework documentation and map the .NET Framework constructs to their NetCOBOL for .NET forms.
Developing XML Interfaces for COBOL Applications
White Paper from IBM.
Free COBOL Compilers and Interpreters Lists free implementations of the COBOL language, whether they follow the ANSI 85 COBOL standard, ANSI 74 COBOL standard, ANSI 2002 or otherwise.
The Kasten COBOL Page
COBOL information by Michael C. Kasten.
OpenCOBOL
OpenCOBOL is an open-source COBOL compiler. OpenCOBOL implements a substantial part of the COBOL 85 and COBOL 2002 standards, as well as many extensions of the existent COBOL compilers.
Reading COBOL Layouts
This tutorial on how to read a COBOL layout was written specifically for customers of Disc Interchange Service Company who have had a conversion performed and have received a COBOL layout with the data.
ZingCOBOL
The aim of the ZingCOBOL, a tutorial aimed at COBOL beginners, is to give the basics of the COBOL programming language for anyone who knows a little bit about computers (not much) and prehaps will have come across another procedural progamming language such as C, BASIC or Pascal.





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