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Fujitsu NetCOBOL for SPARC Architecture

The following sequence of screen captures lets you see the features of NetCOBOL at work.

Project Manager
Configuration Management
NetCOBOL Editor
Building Applications
Debugging Applications
Designing Screens
COBOL File Utility
Using Prototype HTML

Points to watch for in the NetCOBOL for SPARC Architecture walk-through include:

  • Managing sources and projects using Project Manager
  • Integrated configuration management
  • Editor tailored to NetCOBOL source code
  • Debugging with control
  • Screen designing
  • COBOL File Utility
  • Simplified HTML templates

Project Manager

Project Manager provides you with a central point for invoking NetCOBOL tools and building your application. It provides for:

  • Editing source files
  • Compiling programs
  • Jumping to compile errors
  • Creating and executing Make files
  • Debugging programs
  • Setting environment variables
  • Invoking other NetCOBOL tools such as the Data Tools
  • Adding other tools to the Project Manager menu system to tailor the environment to your needs

Configuration Management

With PowerGEM you set up libraries to store updates to sources and objects. When you map folders to these libraries, the NetCOBOL tools recognize that the stored file types are controlled. Changes can only be made to files that the user has checked out.

NetCOBOL Editor

Fujitsu's COBOL editor:

  • Provides editing functions
  • Integrates with other NetCOBOL tools such as the Project Manager

Building Applications

Programming-Staff has a build function that:

  • Constructs a make file
  • Only uses changed components
  • Displays a summary of results
  • Takes you to build errors (shown below)
  • Builds modules or entire projects

Debugging Applications

The NetCOBOL Debugger is a full-function, source code debugger. Some of the features available are:

  • Source window (shown below)
  • Watch data window (shown below)
  • Break window
  • User program standard I/O window (shown below)
  • Passage count window
  • Stamp window (for recording timing information)

Designing Screens

SCREEN-DESIGNER is a utility that gives you the ability to design and create screens you and users will see and use. Its allows you to:

  • Design screens interactively based on screen display images
  • Generate COBOL source code for a SCREEN SECTION

COBOL File Utility

The COBOL File Utility manipulates files without using COBOL programs. It can be used in both screen and command modes. The COBOL File Utility has functions that allow you to:

  • Convert a text file to a variable length sequential file and vice versa
  • Create or expand a sequential, relative, or indexed file from a sequential file and vice versa
  • Display the contents of records
  • Print the contents of records
  • Edit a record (shown below)
  • Expand a file
  • Sort records according to a key and output them to a variable length sequential file
  • Display the attribute of an indexed file
  • Recover an indexed file
  • Reorganize an unused area of an indexed file

Using Prototype HTML

Part of the NetCOBOL CGI support is the prototype HTML feature. This reduces the programming burden when you need to output HTML to Internet clients.

The Debugger and Editor windows shown below show standard HTML (in the Editor) with a prototype variable inserted ("//COBOL//GET-TEXT//COBOL//") and the lines required (in the Debugger) to set the prototype variable to the string to be displayed (in this case "NetCOBOL").