COBOLSTUDIO

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The next generation of COBOL IDE

COBOL STUDIO is an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for the development and quality assurance of applications developed in COBOL.

Features

COBOL STUDIO provides an extensive set of features that constitute a major breakthrough in COBOL applications development and maintenance. Such features include:

Cobol Editor

  • Edition of programs "locally" without consuming CPU time on the mainframe.
  • Code Browsing: Jump from any code point to the definition of a code element (e.g sections, paragraphs, variables).
  • Code Structure Navigation
  • Code Auto-Completion
  • Syntax Highlighting (User-Configurable).
  • Automatic Numbering of Lines.
  • Code Bookmarks and Code Templates (code assisting).

Certification

Quality Assurance of code is provided by the integrated Q-Care engine, ATX Technologies' solution for automated code certification at development time. This feature:

  • Captures and disallows bad programming practices before compilation;
  • Includes a comprehensive set of standards that implement, besides others, IBM recommendations for code tuning and optimization;
  • Enforces optimization of COBOL programs with respect to DB2 access.
CobolStudio Code Certification

CobolStudio Syntax Validation

Syntax Validation

COBOL Studio performs the syntactic validation and respective visualization and navigation of the results without the need to consume useful CPU time on the mainframe.

Code Generation Assistant

COBOL Studio provides code generation assistants that boost your development from the begining. It allows generation of components and functionalities based on wizards. Assistants can be created or customized for specific user coding practices.

CobolStudio Code Assisting

Remote Compilation

COBOL Studio provides the capacity to invoke remotely and in an integrated and transparent way the mainframe compiler and provide in a user-friendly way the visualization of the compilation results. Optionally, COBOL Studio provides the capacity to disallow such a compilation request if violations of code quality aspects detected by the certification mechanism have not been corrected.

Integration

COBOL Studio is natively integrated to the CVS Code Management System, and integration-ready with Serena ChangeMan Dimensions. However, due to its highly-reconfigurable nature, integration to other similar code management solutions can be provided with little effort.

Extensibility

COBOL Studio is based on an open, extensible architecture that permits a wide variety of modules and functionalities to be easily introduced in order to satisfy the most diverse customers' needs.