Sergio Samayoa

Windows everywhere? Yes, in the users's desk but in the data center mostly runs linux and all those Windows machines serving as terminals. COBOL in the modern world is mostly for the backend doing stuff that is too costly to rewrite, applications needs massive power because need to handle enormous traffic so can only run on mainframe or both. I earn a live interfacing new applications to those backends running CICS, DB2 and sometimes IMS - and other not so fancy platforms like IBM-i.

I use "IBM Z Open Editor" plug-in because I write mainframe COBOL frequently, this plugin does what you want but admits Enterprise COBOL syntax only. Recently I installed and used the BitLang's COBOL plug-in and that peaks the definition with ctrl-hover, haven't tried copy books. Finally, GNU-COBOL from BitLang does not peeks definitions only navigation which is weird because is from same author(s).

I used mostly "IBM Z Open Editor" plug-in because I write mainframe COBOL frequently, this plugin does what you want but admits Enterprise COBOL syntax only. I used for a simple program the BitLang's COBOL plug-in and seems that it peaks the definition with ctrl-hover, haven't tried copy books. Finally, GNU-COBOL from BitLang does not peeks definitions only navigation which is weird because is from same author(s).

Hi, I just noticed that Ubuntu 22.04 offers gnucobol4 package: Package: gnucobol4 Architecture: amd64 Version: 4.0~early~20200606-6 Priority: optional Section: universe/devel Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com> Original-Maintainer: Thorsten Alteholz <debian@alteholz.de> ... What are the differences with 3.1 and 3.2? Will be an official dist? Regards!

Hi guys, Have you tried "IBM Z Open Editor" in VS Code? Latest version have "format document" for COBOL sources.

Crazy stuff. What is the license? Is open source?

I wrote some POC DB2 programs but those worked only with specific version(s) both in Windows and Linux. I also did some with esql (https://github.com/opensourcecobol/Open-COBOL-ESQL) + Postgres and found that combination far more stable than DB2's pre-processor. I had the intention on writing my own pre processor for ODBC - just for fun - but have been too busy to do so. Bottom line: You choose well.

Hi, Dumb question... How to compile from trunk? There is no "configure" executable :( Regards!