Micro Focus COBOL

The 32-bit COBOL implementation was introduced by Micro Focus in 1992 that supported OS/2, Windows 3.x and DOS and was later ported to Windows NT. There were also versions of the toolkit available for sundry Unices but they were typically sold separately and not bundled together like the Win-OS/2-DOS version was. Prior to the introduction of this product the Micro Focus company had supplied a 16 bit COBOL compiler to Microsoft that they used in the Microsoft Cobol product.

Products

CP/M

Compact Interactive Standard COBOL (CIS COBOL) (DRI Cobol 80, Microware COBOL)

• 4.2
• 4.3 (1979)
• 4.4 (1981)
• 4.5 (1982)

Level II COBOL

• Level II COBOL 2.1

DOS

Professional COBOL

• 1.0 (1984)
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 2.0 (1987)

Level II COBOL

• 1983: Level II COBOL, Personal COBOL - for DOS 1.1
• 1984: Level II COBOL 2.1
• 2.5
• 2.6

VS COBOL

• 1.2
• 1.5
• VS COBOL 286 - for PC AT

VS COBOL Workbench

• 1986: V 1.3 - for PC XT
• 1987: V 2.0

OS/2 16-bit

• Micro Focus COBOL/2
• Micro Focus Professional COBOL/2
• Micro Focus COBOL Workbench

OS/2 32-bit

• Jan 1996: Object COBOL 4.0 (32-bit) for OS/2

Windows 95

• Dec 1995: Visual Object COBOL 1.0

UNIX

• Nov 1996: Object COBOL Developer Suite v4.1 for UNIX

Publications

• David Dill: The COBOL Presentation Manager Programming Guide: For OS/2 Versions 1.3 and 2.0 – VNR 1992, ISBN 0-442-01293-4
• Robert B. Chapman: OS/2 Presentation Manager Programming for COBOL Programmers (Revised edition) – Wiley 1993, ISBN 0-471-56140-1

Links

• Building Applications Using Micro Focus COBOL (2002)