Have not tried it or looked into the feature list yet. Not sure if there are any arbitrary limits in the trial version, but it looks like they may want to nudge people toward hybrid cloud computing.
Have good, make well,
Blue
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I tried it for a bit out of curiosity. It seemed to work "okay" but the install messed up my PATH variable settings on my Linux box. My trial is now expired so I guess I should uninstall it.
I'm not really familiar with IBM's dialect of COBOL so I did run into some errors with some test programs I tried. Seems like it converts the COBOL code to C and then compiles just like GnuCOBOL. I personally see no reason to switch and stop using GnuCOBOL for my own stuff. GnuCOBOL seems to be the better product and is also free. :)
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heh.. if you know assembly is dead easy to extend the .... trial.. runs very well under Debian Sid !
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"Seems like it converts the COBOL code to C and then compiles just like GnuCOBOL"
I believe it to be an improved COBOL-IT port.
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Nope, as far as I see there is no C compiler involved (see its dependency list, which is also quite different to GnuCOBOL and COBOL-IT) . If you want to ensure this just run it under strace.
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https://www.ibm.com/products/cobol-compiler-linux-x86
Have not tried it or looked into the feature list yet. Not sure if there are any arbitrary limits in the trial version, but it looks like they may want to nudge people toward hybrid cloud computing.
Have good, make well,
Blue
Here is the data sheet from IBM:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/system/files/inline-files/cobol_linux_x86_11_datasheet_0.pdf
Biggest issue is that it is onoly for x86 and not x64 and that can be a considerable problem although cost would be up there as well !
I tried it for a bit out of curiosity. It seemed to work "okay" but the install messed up my PATH variable settings on my Linux box. My trial is now expired so I guess I should uninstall it.
I'm not really familiar with IBM's dialect of COBOL so I did run into some errors with some test programs I tried. Seems like it converts the COBOL code to C and then compiles just like GnuCOBOL. I personally see no reason to switch and stop using GnuCOBOL for my own stuff. GnuCOBOL seems to be the better product and is also free. :)
heh.. if you know assembly is dead easy to extend the .... trial.. runs very well under Debian Sid !
"Seems like it converts the COBOL code to C and then compiles just like GnuCOBOL"
I believe it to be an improved COBOL-IT port.
Nope, as far as I see there is no C compiler involved (see its dependency list, which is also quite different to GnuCOBOL and COBOL-IT) . If you want to ensure this just run it under
strace.