How to Use Micro Focus COBOL on UNIX

Here’s about the different flavors of COBOL and the ideas to work on Micro Focus UNIX COBOL.

What is Micro Focus COBOL

For COBOL development, re-use /or modernization, it offers a powerful, robust, and functionally rich environment.
Provides a choice of productive Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) for the development of COBOL applications.
Existing code can be extended for modernization to the internet and integration with other applications through .NET, COBOL/J2EE, COBOL/XML, SOA, and Direct COBOL Web services.

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Micro Focus COBOL is the technology at the heart of leading Micro Focus development environments such as:

Micro Focus Net Express, which provides a powerful highly productive Windows-based COBOL development and extension environment for applications deployed on Windows, .NET, Unix, and Linux
Micro Focus Server Express which provides an accessible COBOL development
environment based on UNIX and Linux for applications deployed on UNIX and Linux
Micro Focus Studio, combines the power and productivity of Net Express with the platform availability of Server Express to provide a complete development
solution for Windows, .NET, UNIX, and Linux
Micro Focus Mainframe Express Enterprise Edition, which provides a productive highly IBM-compatible COBOL and mainframe application development environment for applications deployed back on an IBM mainframe

State-of-the-Art COBOL Compiler Micro Focus COBOL includes a state-of-the-art compiler that builds on COBOL’s traditional strengths by providing:

High-performance native code that is optimized for peak performance on specific
hardware like the leading IBM, HP, Intel, and Sun platforms
Extensive COBOL dialect support, simplifying the reuse of existing applications and
COBOL programming skills
Scalability, ranging from workstations to multi-processor UNIX/Linux server systems. Read Micro Focus for UNIX here.
A portable execution format for easily deploying applications on the leading server
platforms utilizing Micro Focus Server
Fully portable multi-threading capabilities, leveraging the modern operating system
threading features to provide optimum application performance
Full support for object-oriented COBOL (including ISO2002 Syntax) and COBOL
development/debugging
UNICODE support for global applications
Compilation to Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL) with support for managed or verifiable code.

Also Read: A datasheet on Microfocus COBOL