VisualAge COBOL: Difference between revisions

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COBOL development environment introduced in 1995 for OS/2 and AIX as "VisualAge for COBOL" with a Windows NT version following shortly thereafter and the for bit dropped from the name. 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 (Apr 1998)
- CSD/FixPak 2 February 1999

List price for the "Standard" version was USD 499

Sep 1997: VisualAge for COBOL Version 2.1

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

Nov 1995: VisualAge COBOL for OS/2 1.0

Last known Windows version: 3.07 (2003)

Links

License

Discontinued. Commercial.

Author

IBM

Publications

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