Re: COBOL Compiler for Windows

Howard Brazee wrote:
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:11:55 -0400, Graham Hobbs <ghobbs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Do the MS and Fujitsu compilers support VSAM KSDS files?

Do you mean "MF and Fujitsu compilers"? Microsoft hasn't sold a COBOL compiler since the mid-1990s, if memory serves, and even then it was a rebadged Micro Focus compiler.

What about
DB2 access, CICS access, guess I'm asking EXEC CICS suchandsuch and
EXEC SQL suchandsuch.

Huh? It looks as though you want an IBM mainframe compiler, not a
Windows compiler. Or maybe you want terminal software to allow you
to run TSO/SPF on your mainframe.

Or maybe he wants a mainframe emulation environment, which would let him run programs with EXEC CICS and EXEC SQL macros. We do sell such a product, after all (a few of 'em, actually).

It's not free, though. It's not even cheap. Emulating the mainframe operating environment is not trivial.

For the truly ambitious, there's the free Hercules mainframe emulator, on which you can install the public-domain MVS 3.8 and its compiler pack, which includes an ancient IBM COBOL compiler. (Apparently someone has now hacked that to even support VSAM files. Luxury!) But I don't believe there's any free emulator for CICS available.

If the OP can do without CICS, and this is for personal (non-commercial) use, there's the academic version of MF COBOL: Net Express Personal Edition, which is a free (big) download or $50 for media in a box.[1] It includes Open ESQL ("EXEC SQL") support.


[1] http://microfocus.com/Resources/Communities/Academic/shop/index.asp


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Michael Wojcik
Micro Focus
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