PERCobol

Flexible Extensible and Functional
System Independence — PERCobol permits the freedom to “stay put” or “move” COBOL anywhere at your own pace. Use LegacyJ PERCobol to migrate existing proprietary COBOL applications to “open” standards based platforms.

Bring COBOL and Java together — PERCobol compiler technology contains leading edge features for building J2EE compliantand traditional COBOL applications. Consider integrating COBOL and Java based applications to form a cohesive business processes.

  • XML PARSE statement
  • SQL Stored Procedures
  • Deploy on any J2EE Application Server
  • Add Java application components
  • Integrate Java in COBOL
  • and more...

LegacyJ PERCobol is the COBOL modern compiler permitting straight-forward intuitive use of advanced “Open” technologies. PERCobol compiles more than 15 dialects of COBOL, and includes the multi-platform development environment built using Eclipse technology.

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 supportingmore 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 a language sensitive editor, a 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).