Open Source COBOL Software

GnuCOBOL (formerly OpenCOBOL) is a free, modern COBOL compiler. GnuCOBOL implements a substantial part of the COBOL 85, X/Open COBOL and newer ISO COBOL standards (2002, 2014, 2023), as well as many extensions included in other COBOL compilers (IBM COBOL, MicroFocus COBOL, ACUCOBOL-GT and others). GnuCOBOL translates COBOL into C and internally compiles the translated code using a native C compiler. Build COBOL programs on various platforms, including GNU/Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows. GnuCOBOL has also been built on HP/UX, z/OS, SPARC, RS6000, AS/400, along with other combinations of machines and operating systems. Copyright 2001-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc. The cobc compiler is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the FSF; either version 3, or (at your option) any later version. The libcob run time support source tree is licensed under the GNU LGPL.

ACAS contains Sales, Purchase and Nominal Ledgers (Accounts Receivable, Payable and General Ledgers) as well as Stock Control (Inventory Control) along with IRS (Incomplete Records System). This system is written in COBOL and uses the free GnuCobol compiler which compiles via C code and is therefore compatible with the following platforms: Linux, Unix, Dos, Mac OSX, Windows providing you have installed the GCC C compiler or an equivalent as well as GnuCobol. at a minimum, v2.0+. Note that all testing is done using v3.2. The current version utilises standard Cobol files, be they sequential or indexed. The beta version, offers additional support for Mysql and Mariadb. This is available as v3.3 and as a nightly build direct from the lead programmer.

The RecordEditor is a Data File editor for Flat Files (delimited and fixed field position). It supports Unix / PC / Legacy (e.g. Mainframe) file formats, both Text and binary files. The Editor uses a Record-Layout description to format the files. This is ideal for Fixed width (Text or Binary) files, Cobol Data Files, Mainframe files and complicated Csv files. Cobol Copybooks can be used to format Cobol Data files. As well as an editor, The following utilities are supplied * Formatted Compare * File Copy and reformat Utility * FileWizard this is use to work out the format of a File. It can generally find both Text and binary / packed deicimal fields in a file For Simple Csv you should look at its sister project reCsvEditor. Note: The core Editor code is also used in the "Protocol buffers editor" and "Avro Editor"

An open source COBOL compiler for the PC x86-32 platform. Generates GNU assembler and requires GCC to produce a binary. Supports Linux, BSD and MinGW 32 bit platforms.

Accounting Including: Point-of-sale, Invoicing, Job Costing, Production, Orders, Quotations, Inventory (Stock), Accounts Receivable (Debtors), Accounts Payable (Creditors), General Ledger, Management Reports, Reconciliations

COBOL Utilities Project collects free and open-source COBOL utilities, libraries, and test suites, which are independent of any specific COBOL compiler. COBOL-UP supports free and open development. A teamwork discussion group has been established. Threads will be focused, the forum open to any and all COBOL. Developers are encouraged to signal interest in write permissions, as this will be an open to all, COBOL utility project. Mainframe, mid-range, Mac, PC, Hercules, Raspberry. Signal interest, we'll set you up with some (vetted) file, distribution and communication space. Wildcat, GnuCOBOL, Micro Focus, Elastic, RainCode, IBM, Tiny COBOL, all the others, all in. COBOL-UP

This project has moved to GitHub ! The version here at SourceForge will remain for historic purpose. Koopa is a parser generator, made for COBOL. It can handle source files in isolation (no preprocessing required) and doesn't mind the presence of CICS/SQL fragments. The grammar is easily extensible in a way which minimizes the impact on the overall code.

One of the hardest things to do when coding with COBOL is translating a screen design into code. The process may take hours, not to say days. In my old BLIS-COBOL, COBOL 74 and COBOL 80 /85 days (and those last 2 had the SCREEN SECTION which helped a lot !), I recall spending a significant amount of time dedicated to that activity. Time that could be used for more productive activities like coding and resolving bugs, for instance. Having said that, I developed a Screen Editor (similar to a Screen Painter, as some tools may call it) which allows the user to create screen layouts (which includes the use of colors) with delimited fields and respective input masks, and finally generate the SCREEN SECTION code that reflects that layout. All of it automatically - no code needed. The idea came from a program I used to use named EDITEL. I have adapted the concept (it was originally built for BLIS COBOL systems) and created a version that does this for GnuCOBOL and Microfocus COBOL. Enjoy !

LegacyInsight is an AI-powered reverse engineering platform that transforms legacy software systems into comprehensible business logic. Using cutting-edge GenAI, it analyzes legacy and extracts core operations, business rules, and data transformations—all translated into natural language. LegacyInsight supports enterprise-grade systems built on Java, COBOL, NET and other legacy stacks, helping organizations reclaim understanding of business-critical code.

LIXA (LIbre XA) is an open source and free Transaction Manager implementing the distributed transaction processing "XA specification" and "TX (transaction demarcation) specification" according to the X/Open CAE Specification. LIXA implements even XTA: XA Transaction API, an innovative API that implements XA transactional context passing among different applications. LIXA is a Transaction Manager but it's not a Transaction Monitor: this is the distinguishing feature of the project. LIXA technology enables every application container, like a web server or a shell, to become a two phase commit application server. The client/server architecture of LIXA allows many application containers to share a single LIXA (state) server: this is ideal when horizontal scalability is a must and many identical application containers must refer to a single transactional environment. LIXA can be used with the C, C++, Java, Python and COBOL programming languages.

RES is a pure Java based Open Source Cobol to Java translator. It creates maintainable Java code for a subset of VS Cobol syntax. It has been developed with JDK, JTB and Javacc.

A compiler and cross-compiler for (Currently) Cobol (with Fortran being added later). It is intended to be the first self-hosted open-source Cobol Compiler, e.g. the compiler itself will be written using Cobol.

Stingray contains a number of components for reading spreadsheets and other flat files. It copes with COBOL files (in EBCDIC) and even COBOL Copybook (or DDE) definitions. Simple Python programs can handle a wide variety of files. This is the Python3.3 release.

a command line preprocessor to use gtk libraries with opencobol 1.1 with object orientation syntax giving it gui capabilites. Ultimate resource can be uploaded from www.opencobol.altervista.org the site contains a translator to get in your native language all details about guicobol. The incoming version will update within some weeks. it uses the AGAR GUI TOOLKIT. Do not forget to visit github to get latest changes... here will be uploaded less frequent as final version (expected for april)

The vs Cobol screen handler converts screens defined in a simple meta-language (using standard text files) to Cobol sourcecode which can be accessed using PERFORM statements. Copyright (C) 1988-2013 Albert Gielis This software is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2.0 as published by the Free Software Foundation.

The Flight Log software allows all flight crews, Pilots, Flight Engineers, Reo’s and other GIB’s etc, to record their flight time in a unified location namely their computer, regardless of platform, i.e., Linux, OSX, and other *nix systems as well as Windows. This is the only purpose of Flightlog, it does not do other functions such as flight planning, weight and balance etc as there are plenty of tools around if needed, to help do these functions. The OS (Open Source) version allows users to install the free Cobol compiler, build and run all self tests and then compile (or build) the Flightlog program.

Parse, analyze and -- most importantly -- use COBOL data definitions. This gives you access to COBOL data from Python programs. Write data analyzers, one-time data conversion utilities and Python programs that are part of COBOL systems. Really.

Coboldoc is a java web 2.0 style interface for analyzing COBOL. It maintains its own cross reference database for static & dynamic calls to help with impact analysis or for general COBOL surfing. It's also designed to run directly on z/OS

Generator for Geekcode 2.1 written in COBOL.

This is a collection of COBOL programs, in order to contribute, share and disseminate the GnuCOBOL (formerly OpenCOBOL) project: https://sourceforge.net/projects/open-cobol/ All programs are written by Juan Carlos Negrete, from middle 2018 as at date. Some GnuCOBOL programs could also have been created by other collaborators, in which case they are listed in the AUTHORS and THANK YOU files. Copyright 2018-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc. All these programs are free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify them under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the FSF. Downloads: https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucoboldev/files/ Wiki: https://sourceforge.net/u/alphastation/wiki/Home/

Personnel system for running a emulation of a IDMS database on a PC using IDMS commands at a higher level but using a mysql database at a lower level.

The aim of this project is to create a fully functional COBOL compiler that translate into Java or directly into bytecode.

Analyzes programs (and projects) written in Cobol and generates information (HTML) for its easy reading, understanding and analysis.

SQL precompiler developed for Gnu-COBOL and MySql.

A COBOL debugger for GnuCOBOL written in GnuCOBOL. Works with both current GnuCOBOL and old GnuCOBOL/OpenCOBOL 1.1; could be used for other vendors with slightly modifications, too. Take a look at https://gnucobol.altervista.org/tp-cobol-debugger/