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CobMaker - Cobol Development Tools

Making COBOL development and maintenance easier

CobMaker is an easy-to-use feature-rich COBOL product suite containing powerful tools for the development and maintenance of COBOL-based applications. CobMaker is especially adapted to the AcuCobol-GT compiler, and is available for UNIX, Linux and Windows Server. Product versions compatible with OpenCOBOL and COBOL-IT are in preparation and will be soon available.

CobMaker is equipped with powerful designers (screen/report painters), editors (code/object editors) and automatic source writers, that let users develop business applications faster and more efficiently. CobMaker also includes a number of callable runtime functions enhancing file, screen, report, message and other processing from within application programs.

System Features

Essential system features of CobMaker include:

Project-oriented storage of sources and system files in directory structures.
Basic configuration and runtime/compiler properties of the COBOL application on project-level.
Log-in procedure giving the developer his authorization and properties, as defined in the user account.
Multi-user development allowing team members to have simultaneous access to same project.
Locking of sources and objects during a specific time period, defined by each developer.
Easy-to-use desktop interface with different views for functions and objects.
Data dictionaries (DIC) for file descriptions, records and data items, with an extended COPY statement syntax.
Object-oriented development separating COBOL coding and object design, like screens and reports.
Built-in pre-compiler converting references to DIC items and MACCO statements into normal COBOL syntax.
Source-writer generating small subprograms for objects, keeping only the executable files after compilation.
File editor for editing, searching and viewing of records, and creation of data files, without COBOL programming.
Screen designer for both the GUI and the character-based interface with structure editor for form layout properties, supporting up to 9 languages.
Global and screen-specific menu bars, tool bars and push buttons for the GUI interface.
Event-driven programming by means of a powerful form handler, allowing the equal handling of GUI and character-based screens at runtime.
Report writer with design painter and structure editor for all layout properties, supporting up to 9 languages.
Callable operational reports producing print files for the spooling system, controlled by logical functions.
Window module allowing the design of file-related "paged windows" presenting data records in different views.
Application menus displaying submenus and programs for execution, with an easy-to-use menu structure editor.
Global and screen-specific application messages, error texts, help texts and question texts.
Variable-sized small texts associated to memo numbers, controlled by a powerful runtime memo text handler.
User-defined menus displaying application subprograms for execution, controlled by a runtime menu handler.
File retrieval function based on simple SQL syntax, in order to search, view and print records in data files.
COBOL coding, compiling, error-fixing and debugging by means of the built-in object-oriented editor.
Queue processing for sources and objects, allowing the compilation of program groups or the entire application.
Background spooling of print files produced by CobMaker and the COBOL compiler, with an interface to the spooler of the host system.
Front-end spool manager allowing the searching, viewing and printing of spool files, and changing their properties.
Macro language MACCO, allowing the definition of user-specific syntax extensions to COBOL.
Cross-reference library presenting relationships between sources, objects, data items, literals and variables.
Callable runtime functions enhancing file, screen, report, message and other processing.
Easy-to-use system administration to configure CobMaker with powerful functions for printing, copying, renaming and searching of sources and objects.
Export/Import functions to backup/restore sources and objects in platform-independent archives.
Multi-language development on object-level, supporting 1 native and up to 8 foreign languages.
CobMaker and application execution in both character-based and GUI mode.
Multiple instances of CobMaker running simultaneously, with support for up to 9 sessions per user.
Easy interface to AcuCobol utilities and external tools.

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System Requirements

Operating System

Microsoft WIndows XP/Vista, Windows 7/8.
Microsoft Windows Server 2003/2008.
Any UNIX/Linux platform for which AcuCobol-GT is available.
UNIX enterprise servers: AIX, Solaris.
Linux enterprise servers: SUSE, Red Hat, Oracle.
Linux clients: Fedora, Ubuntu, openSUSE.

Cobol Compiler/Runtime

AcuCobol-GT compiler 5.2 or higher (8.x/9.x recommended).
OpenCOBOL 1.1 (beta interface available).
COBOL-IT Standard 2.6.4/2.8.8 (rc interface available).

Additional Software

APEX - COBOL application runtime for end users.
CobEdit - COBOL source editor with compiler interface.
PuTTY - Most used terminal emulator.
Microsoft Visual C++ 2008/2010 (for COBOL-IT/Windows)

Product Licensing

All CobMaker Software products are distributed as evaluation versions. After purchasing a license the evaluation version can be unlocked to a full version. The products are licensed for use on one single computer/server, based on the purchased number of concurrent connections.

Please contact info@cobmaker.com for details and prices.