Hi All, hope all is well.
Well, I never thought I would get back to COBOL, but during the watching of a video about AI and MS Access, my colleague briefly mentioned COBOL. I thought cool, I will check COBOL out, since it has been a while since I developed with the language. And I am glad I did! Doing a Google Search on COBOL, I came across Rocket Software’s COBOL infographic. Wow! I was blown a way that COBOL was so widely used to this day. Well, it has been decades since I programmed with COBOL. My first job, was on a OS/390 Mainframe (nicknamed “Old Charlie”) during the Y2K effort. Another job had me using MicroFocus COBOL for a Web Patient Application.
Now today (decades later), I am getting back into COBOL and taking the first certification offered by Rocket Software.. I am almost done.
A few questions for some assistance.
- VS Code - How do you setup tasks to compile programs and related sub programs.. Yeah, I could do each one manually, but it would be more efficient to execute a task to compile each one.
- VS Code - Instead of using Terminal, I would like send the output to the Rocket Window. It was working before, but now running programs sends the output to the terminal which sometimes overlaps. I already tried to rename the runnw.exe to copy then the run.exe to runnw.exe.
- Is there handy chart that shows differences between Rocket COBOL products vs IBM? I know that some features with Rocket COBOL are not available to COBOL-85 and IBM OS/Z. Would be really cool if there was one.
I am also excited to find out that Db2 is available for free. I am Freelance Software Engineer is this highly beneficial to me.
Also looking forward to integrate C# .NET with Rocket Visual COBOL.
Well, that is all GOD Bless everyone. GO COBOL!
Richard
