NetCOBOL for Windows®

Compile COBOL on Windows

Code COBOL with Microsoft Visual Studio. Leverage Microsoft visual tools. Get free COBOL runtimes. Bring your COBOL into the Windows world with NetCOBOL for Windows.

Free your COBOL applications from the mainframe and take advantage of the world's most popular operating system. NetCOBOL for Windows is a COBOL compiler and development environment that lets you create standalone COBOL applications and/or COBOL components for use with Microsoft® visual tools.

NetCOBOL for Windows Version 10.1 runs on Windows 7, Vista, XP, Server 2008 R2, Server 2008 and Server 2003 R2. Separate products support the generation of 32-bit and 64-bit code.

Free COBOL Runtimes

Slash costs and ditch time-intensive administrative tasks. With NetCOBOL, there is no extra charge for distributing your applications. NetCOBOL puts you in control of your costs.

NetCOBOL Project Manager

NetCOBOL for Windows includes the NetCOBOL Project Manager. It provides an editor, compiler (NetCOBOL), interactive debugger, execution environment and other supporting tools. NetCOBOL also ships with sample COBOL applications that cover a wide array of NetCOBOL compiler functions. Additional samples can be downloaded from the Download Center.

Features

No COBOL runtime license charges
Supports native 32-bit code (NetCOBOL for Windows) and 64-bit code (NetCOBOL for Windows x64)
Standards Compliant (Full ANSI Standard COBOL X3.23 1985)
Compatible with VS COBOL II, OS/VS COBOL and Micro Focus COBOL
Embedded SQL Preprocessor with ODBC support, with USE FOR DEADLOCK procedures for escaping from database deadlock situations
Verifies support of Oracle and Pro*COBOL
CGI, ISAPI and SAF support subroutines
Converts data between COBOL data files and XML
Creates and works with COM/DCOM objects
COBOL objects invokable from Active Server Pages
Provides Web Application Wizard for creating Web applications
Full-function GUI COBOL Integrated Development Environment (Edit, Compile, and Debug)
Supports multi-threaded execution
Provides event logging, trouble-shooting information on abends and just-in-time debugging
Supports Unicode application development.
Includes the PowerBSORT, PowerCOBOL, PowerFORM and Data Tools utilities.

COBOL Coding Made Easy

NetCOBOL for Windows lets you manage, edit and debug COBOL applications with an easy-to-use interface.

Manage

Keep track of your project files, catalog and more.
Edit

Edit code line-by-line with an easy-to-use editor.
Debug

A comprehensive debugger lets you test and repair your application quickly and easily.