IBM COBOL/2

IBM COBOL/2 was a COBOL development environment for DOS and OS/2. Its parts were licenced from British company Micro Focus, so that in fact Micro Focus, IBM and Microsoft were shipping the same compiler engine.

• Program number: 5604-066
• Part numbers: 95X3071, 79H5502 (DUA)
• Withdrawal from Marketing: 16 Mar 1998

Features

Language variants supported by IBM COBOL/2:

• subset of IBM VS COBOL II release 2 syntax
• subset of IBM OS/VS COBOL release 2.4 syntax
• IBM PC COBOL Version 1.0 and IBM COBOL Version 2.0 syntax (with minor restrictions)
• MicroFocus extensions for the IBM PC

Provided tools:

• Library Manager - for creation and maintenance of object libraries
• SORT/MERGE module
• Linker - linkage editor with support for DOS and OS/2
• ANIMATOR - source line debug facilities

Documentation:

• IBM COBOL/2 Volume 1: Compile, Link and Run Manual / Fundamentals Manual
• IBM COBOL/2 Volume 2: Language Reference Manual

Version

• Jan 1988: IBM COBOL/2 Version 1.00

Author

• Micro Focus
• IBM

Publications

• Robert Sales: COBOL/2: The next generation in applications programming - IBM Systems Journal (Volume 27, Issue 2, 1988)

Links

• ZP87-4037 (1987-04-02) IBM COBOL/2
• ZP87-4131 (1987-11-03) IBM COBOL/2 (Availability)
• ZP88-0103 (1988-01-15) IBM 4680 Support for COBOL