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PERCobol technology extends support beyond those of traditional COBOL compilers and permits easy, straight forward migration into modern programming paradigms.

PERCobol compiles COBOL into "object oriented" class files that can be deployed as Applications, Servlets, Applets or Enterprise Java Beans.

COBOL Technology

PERCobol is an ANSI 1985 X3.23b standard compliant COBOL compiler supporting COBOL standards, addendums, and X/Open COBOL definition. LegacyJ PERCobol advanced features include broad COBOL dialect capabilities supporting more than fifteen (15) COBOL vendor dialects.

PERCobol advanced programming features permit COBOL applications to access Java capabilities significantly increasing the functional characteristics of COBOL applications. PERCobol extends classic COBOL capabilities permitting use of XML, TCP/IP socket, 64 bit architecture, event-driven programming and J2EE capabilities.

Integrated Development Environment

PERCobol Integrated Development Environment contains language sensitive editor, COBOL graphical debugger and many other advanced application development tools. LegacyJ's development environment contains a rich set of features to assist developers develop and maintain COBOL applications with unified toolset. Application development can be performed in a stand-alone development platform or networked across an multiple systems.

The PERCobol debug tool will monitor a COBOL application program execution at a COBOL source level. Debugging capabilities permit users to debug EXEC-SQL calls allowing programmers to watch data. Programmers can step through the COBOL applications and perform standard COBOL debugging functions such as:

Setting and clearing breakpoints

Viewing, tracking and setting watchpoints on COBOL variables

Tracking and debugging multiple COBOL threads (useable in event-driven programming)

Local and Remote debugging of COBOL programs

Debugging of mixed applications (COBOL and Java).

Native Support

PERCobol compiled programs allow for access to Java applications through the COBOL CALL statement and with the Callable Program Interface*. The CALL statement is a standard method for accessing external programs and applications in COBOL. PERCobol compiled programs can also be integrated with Java through the Callable Program Interface; this enables Java applications to access COBOL data types and program methods supported in the PERCobol runtimes.

Native CALL support to C/C++, Visual Basic (Windows), Pascal (Delphi), COBOL native or interpreted Cobol are supported through PERCobol CALL support.

Access COBOL Files

PERCobol can access traditional COBOL file types (Indexed, Sequential and Relative). PERCobol programs can access ISAM, CISAM, Micro Focus and other native file types. SQL databases can also be accessed through JDBC and built-in PERCobol SQL support. Hewlett-Packard MPE/iX Image databases can be accessed through use of Image Intrinsics.

COBOL Anywhere to Java Everywhere

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