VisualAge COBOL

Description

COBOL development environment introduced in 1995 for OS/2 and AIX with a Windows NT version following shortly thereafter. In addition to native OS/2 programming "Enterprise" versions of the software could be used for developing MVS executables and the later Z/OS variant, the compiler is nearly 100% "IBM Enterprise COBOL" compatible.

VA COBOL offered a visual design and testing environment similar to the VisualAge C++ v4 and VA SmallTalk products

Versions

• Last known OS/2 version: VisualAge COBOL 2.2
  • CSD/FixPak 2 February 1999

List price for the "Standard" version was USD 499

• 1997: VisualAge COBOL for OS/2 2.0

• 1996: VisualAge for COBOL for OS/2 1.2
  • CSD/FixPak 2 for IBM VisualAge for COBOL for OS/2, Version 1 Release 2

• 1996: VisualAge for COBOL for OS/2 1.1
  • CSD/FixPak 1 for IBM VisualAge for COBOL for OS/2, Version 1 Release 1

• 1995: VisualAge COBOL for OS/2 1.0
• Last known Windows version: 3.03

Links

• Screenshots of version 1

License

• Discontinued. Commercial.

Author

IBM

Publications

• IBM RedBook: IBM VisualAge for COBOL for OS/2 Object-Oriented Programming
• IBM RedBook: IBM VisualAge COBOL; Remote Edit/Compile/Debug
• IBM RedBook: Host/Workstation Client/Server Implementation Using VisualAge COBOL on OS/2, AIX, and MVS
• IBM Cobol Language Reference