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We are pleased to announce the upcoming release of Cobos 2.3.0

This new version brings four major innovations:

- The professional Opensource compiler COBOL-IT is now embedded in Cobos ensuring syntax checking quality at the highest level.

- Editing and compiling PDS members locally without any software installation on the mainframe by the new FTP access mode.

- Improving the management of licenses - Cobos remains free for unlimited personal, educational, and evaluation use.... read more

"Turn your Mainframe Developments into an Agile and Reliable Software Factory"

Cobos is one of the most advanced Open Source IDE dedicated to Mainframe application development. Based on Eclipse, it combines the best of both worlds by capitalizing on the open source community innovation and on the Mainframe best practices.

Cobos 2.2.0 includes many new features (detailed below) which address various aspects of productivity improvement in editing, managing, compiling Mainframe resources and their lifecycle, as well as in functional interactivity with the host, centralized management of Cobos developer environment and usage scope. These improvements also pave the way for powerful community extensions to Cobos.
Therefore, the development experience with Cobos leads to software quality improvement, especially if it is used in conjunction with SCForEclipse COBOL, which allows developers to check programs conformance with COBOL best practices based on a customizable repository of coding rules.... read more

Important : Cobos now includes an installer.

Cobos V2 now includes the Z/Navigator view, which provides direct access to mainframe files, and allows developers to edit source files in Eclipse and save them on the mainframe. This means that installation and use of Cobos creates no upheaval for those familiar with former environments.

Accompanying this advancement, the use of CVS is retained through the addition of a specific CVS menu in Cobos.... read more