This thread will drive you through how to edit COBOL and JCL using Enterprise Developer Personal Edition for Visual Studio 2010. We will be using the Bankdemo project for simplicity and efficiency. If you haven't yet installed, please do so by downloading MFETDUSER.EXE and following the simple setup steps found here.

If you have done already, lets continue on getting to know more about editing COBOL applications and JCL. Some cool features you will be learning are:

• Real-time syntax checking
• Dynamic syntax coloring to distinguish data names, reserved words, procedure names, etc

See how:

• COBOL editing
• Video Demo
• JCL editing

Next: Compiling COBOL applications