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COBOL Compilers

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IBM® COBOL provides a complete offering of compatible, cross-platform, cross-product compilers that support z/OS®, VSE/ESA, z/VM®, AIX® and Microsoft® Windows®. IBM gives you the tools you need to amplify your program development and take advantage of your existing applications, enabling you to strategically position your application development efforts for today's rapidly changing marketplace.

Product Editions

COBOL for AIX

Enables the integration of business critical COBOL applications with modern web technology. Optimized to work with key middleware, such as TXSeries and IBM DB2®, on AIX. Oracle and Tuxedo certified.

COBOL for OS/390 & VM

Provides 31-digit decimal data support and TRUNC(BIN) performance enhancements

COBOL for VSE/ESA

Extends COBOL technology in the VSE/ESA environment

Enterprise COBOL for z/OS

Enables the integration of business critical COBOL applications with modern Web technology. Optimized to work with IBM DB2®, CICS® and IMS™ systems to facilitate application integration and modernization.

Development Studio for i

A comprehensive package of Integrated Language Environment RPG, C/C++ and COBOL compilers designed to create modern IBM i applications and ease application maintenance on IBM Power Systems.

Related Product Editions

Developer for Power Systems Software

Supports development with choice of many languages and application modernization approaches. Create modern solutions that run partly or fully on AIX, IBM i, or Linux on Power Systems hardware.

Developer for System z

A comprehensive integrated development environment that supports CICS, IMS, DB2, and WAS while helping make multiplatform application development faster, more efficient, and less costly.

Team Concert

A collaborative lifecycle management solution to build better software using a complete lean development environment for teams, which includes agile, formal and hybrid

COBOL Report Writer

Defines and produces all the listings, reports, and displayed summaries that would normally be required from a COBOL application.

z/OS

z/OS is a highly secure, scalable, high-performance enterprise operating system on which to build and deploy Internet and Java-enabled applications, providing a comprehensive and diverse application execution environment