Micro Focus COBOL

Description

A 32 bit implementation of COBOL introduced in 1992 that supported OS/2, Windows 3.x and DOS and was later ported to 32 bit Windows, there were also versions of the toolkit available for sundry Unices but they were typically sold separately and not bundled together like the Win-OS/2-DOS version was., Prior to the introduction of this product the Micro Focus company had supplied a 16 bit COBOL compiler to Microsoft that they used in the Microsoft Cobol product.

Versions

CP/M

1980: CIS COBOL

DOS

1983: Level II COBOL, Personal COBOL - for DOS 1.1
1986: VS COBOL Workbench V 1.3 - for PC XT
1987: VS COBOL Workbench V 2.0
VS COBOL 286 - for PC AT

OS/2

1988: COBOL/2 Version 1.0, COBOL/2 Software Development Kit
1988: COBOL/2 Version 1.1
1990: COBOL/2 Version 2.4, COBOL/2 Toolset Version 2.4
1991: COBOL/2 Version 2.5, COBOL/2 Workbench
1994: COBOL/2 Version 3.2

IBM COBOL/2 and Microsoft COBOL Optimizing Compiler Version 3.0 (introduced in August 1988) are based on Micro Focus COBOL/2.

Author

Micro Focus

Publications

Jatich: Micro Focus Workbench: Developing Mainframe COBOL Applications on the PC, Wiley 1992, ISBN 0-471-55611-4
David Dill: The COBOL Presentation Manager Programming Guide: For OS/2 Versions 1.3 and 2.0, 1992, ISBN 0-442-01293-4 - Out of print
Robert B. Chapman: OS/2 Presentation Manager Programming for COBOL Programmers (Revised edition) – 29 Oct 1993 - ISBN 0-471-56140-1 - Out of print.