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VisualAge COBOL
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Name	VisualAge for COBOL
Version	2.2 (1998)
Vendor	IBM
Author
Licence	Commercial
WWW

IBM's 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 VisualAge Smalltalk products

Versions

OS/2

Nov 1995: VisualAge for COBOL 1.1
- CSD/FixPak 1 for IBM VisualAge for COBOL for OS/2, Version 1 Release 1
1996: VisualAge for COBOL 1.2
- CSD/FixPak 2 for IBM VisualAge for COBOL for OS/2, Version 1 Release 2
May 1997: VisualAge for COBOL 2.0
Sep 1997: VisualAge for COBOL 2.1
Apr 1998: VisualAge COBOL 2.2
- CSD/FixPak 2 February 1999

Windows

May 1997: VisualAge for COBOL Version 2.0
Sep 1997: VisualAge for COBOL Version 2.1
Apr 1998: VisualAge COBOL Enterprise Version 2.2
2000: VisualAge COBOL for Windows NT, Version 3.0 (5639-I44)
- 3.0.1 - support for Windows 2000
- 3.0.2 -
- 3.0.3 - FFS performance improved
- 3.0.5 - IBM Distributed Debugger enhanced
- 3.0.6 - LPEX fixes
- 3.0.7 - support for Windows XP

withdrawn in 2006 - replacement: WebSphere Developer for zSeries (5724-L44)

AIX

Nov 1995: (VisualAge) COBOL Set for AIX V1 (5765-548)

Publications

IBM RedBooks

SG24-4606 - IBM VisualAge for COBOL for OS/2 Object-Oriented Programming
SG24-6111 - IBM VisualAge COBOL; Remote Edit/Compile/Debug
SG24-4733 - Host/Workstation Client/Server Implementation Using VisualAge COBOL on OS/2, AIX, and MVS

Links

Screenshots of IBM VisualAge for COBOL for OS/2 Version 1 Release 1

IBM

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 IBM's [[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.
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-*Nov 1995: VisualAge for COBOL for OS/2 1.1
+*Nov 1995: VisualAge for COBOL 1.1
 ** [ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/products/cobol/fixes/cob11fp1/ CSD/FixPak 1] for IBM VisualAge for COBOL for OS/2, Version 1 Release 1
-*1996: VisualAge for COBOL for OS/2 1.2
+*1996: VisualAge for COBOL 1.2
 ** [ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/products/cobol/fixes/cob12fp2/ CSD/FixPak 2] for IBM VisualAge for COBOL for OS/2, Version 1 Release 2
-*May 1997: VisualAge COBOL for OS/2 2.0
+*May 1997: VisualAge for COBOL 2.0
-*Sep 1997: VisualAge for COBOL Version 2.1
+*Sep 1997: VisualAge for COBOL 2.1
 *Apr 1998: VisualAge COBOL 2.2
 ** [ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/products/cobol/fixes/cob22fp2/os2/ CSD/FixPak 2] February 1999