Micro Focus COBOL Workbench

Micro Focus COBOL Workbench integrates a COBOL compiler with development and testing tools. It features editing, debugging and communications facilities as well as graphical data handling tools.

Workbench supports both GUI and character mode under PC DOS, Windows and OS/2. GUI components are restricted to OS/2 Presentation Manager and Windows 3.1.

Features

• COBOL Workbench Mainframe Development Support
• Common Communications Interface (CCI)
• EBCDIC support
• Data File Editor
• Native SQL support for the following relational databases:
  • IBM OS/2 Database Manager
  • Microsoft SQL Server
• Database support using precompilers:
  • NetWare SQL
  • XDB
• Source Code Management Facility (SCMF)

Version

16-bit

• COBOL/2 Workbench V2.0
• COBOL/2 Workbench V2.2
• COBOL/2 Workbench V2.3
• COBOL/2 Workbench V2.4
• COBOL/2 Workbench V2.5
• COBOL Workbench 3.0
• COBOL Workbench 3.1
• COBOL Workbench 3.2
• COBOL Workbench 3.3
• COBOL Workbench 3.4 (1995)

32-bit

• COBOL Workbench 4.0 (Jan 1996)

Publications

• Jatich: Micro Focus Workbench: Developing Mainframe COBOL Applications on the PC – Wiley 1992, ISBN 0-471-55611-4
• Peter Molchan, Clayton L. McNally: Micro Focus COBOL Workbench for the Application Developer – Wiley 1993, ISBN 0-471-58420-7
• Jonathan S. Sayles, Peter Molchan: Using Workbench Development Tools – Wiley 1993, ISBN 0-471-59370-2
• Rob K. Lamb: Micro Focus Workbench & Toolset Developers Guide - McGraw-Hill 1995, ISBN 0-07-036122-3