COBOL sp2: Difference between revisions

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Multi platform GUI creator for COBOL, originally a traditional screen painter that output COBOL code for text mode interfaces but in 1990 became a bona fide GUI creator, by the mid 90s versions of the tool supported DOS, OS/2 32 bit and MS Windows alongside various DEC VMS and UNIX platforms in addition to AT&T/SCO UNIX and followed IBM CUA guidelines down to a tee, currently the company supports modern Windows implementations, VAX, Linux (on x86 and IBM System Z only) and a few "Big" propriety Unices with only Solaris being a notable absence. While CUA is still supported to a degree the emphasis is more on MS Windows like behaviour.

Flexus Thin Client

Add on for the product that supports thin client capabilities, generating a lightweight GUI code that puts less stress on networked environments, only a MS Windows client and a limited number of server platforms and compilers are supported.

Version

Current version: 5.2.59
Version 4 drops most "legacy platforms"
Last known version that runs on OS2: v3.2 (might be version 3.5.x, but we have not been able to get that verified)
Last known version that runs under WinOS2: v3.5
Version 3.2, multimedia updates and changes the way the product is spelled slightly, from "COBOL spII" to "COBOL sp2".
Cobol spII Version 3 introduced in 1993 and was the first version to support 32 bit OS/2 and dynamic windows generation, updates to the 3.x branch add multimedia capabilities and fixes primarily. Compilers supported by COBOL spII v3.x include:

ACUCOBOL-85

DEC VAX COBOL

IBM COBOL/2

mbp Visual COBOL

Micro Focus COBOL/2

Microsoft COBOL

CA-Realia COBOL

Ryan McFarland COBOL 85

COBOL spII version 2 introduced in 1990 and supported proper graphics mode GUI creation for the first time
Originally introduced in 1986 as screenplay, and supported text mode interfaces only, relaunched as "COBOL spII" the year after but product completely unchanged.

License

Commercial - Discontinued
Author: Flexus

Links

COBOL sp2

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-==Description==
+Multi platform GUI creator for [[COBOL]], originally a traditional screen painter that output COBOL code for text mode interfaces but in 1990 became a bona fide GUI creator, by the mid 90s versions of the tool supported DOS, OS/2 32 bit and MS Windows alongside various [[DEC]] VMS and UNIX platforms in addition to AT&T/SCO UNIX and followed IBM CUA guidelines down to a tee, currently the company supports modern Windows implementations, VAX, Linux (on x86 and IBM System Z only) and a few "Big" propriety Unices with only Solaris being a notable absence. While CUA is still supported to a degree the emphasis is more on MS Windows like behaviour.
-Multi platform GUI creator for [[COBOL]], originally a traditional screen painter that output COBOL code for text mode interfaces but in 1990 became a bona fide GUI creator, by the mid 90's versions of the tool supported DOS, OS/2 32 bit and MS Windows alongside various [[DEC]] VMS and UNIX platforms in addition to AT&T/SCO UNIX and followed IBM [[CUA]] guidelines down to a tee, currently the company supports modern Windows implementations, VAX, Linux (on x86 and IBM System Z only) and a few "Big" propriety Unices with only Solaris being a notable absence. While CUA is still supported to a degree the emphasis is more on MS Windows like behaviour.
 ====Flexus Thin Client====
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 ==License==
 * Commercial - Discontinued
+* Author: Flexus
-==Author==
+==Links==
-* [[Flexus]]
+* [http://www.flexus.com/main/index.php/products-a-downloads/flexus-products/cobol-sp2 COBOL sp2]
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+[[Category:COBOL]][[Category:MS Windows Tools]]