Links

Below are some web sites which provide information for the COBOL community.

COBOL Users Group - COBUG provides a one-stop resource for the COBOL community where you will find current references to COBOL jobs, software, forums, code samples, news, and other COBOL programming resources.

COBOL Portal for a site dedicated to COBOL.

COBOL Center for lists of references, news, tools, etc. for the COBOL world. Learn about the COBOL Report Writer of SPC Systems.

Eric Lariaux's starting point for S/390 (OS/390, MVS, VSE, VM) system-programmers, application programmers and operators on the Internet. www.loriaux.com/s390

Flexus COBOL gives a list of COBOL tools organized by category.

IBM COBOL for IBM COBOL information.

Object-Z Systems for a list of described COBOL tools, books, press releases and scientific articles, etc.

RLDT provides a fully transparent gateway between COBOL applications and database technology for Unix and Windows systems. Move your COBOL files to Databases. Fully compatible with SQL server, Oracle, Sybase, Informix, DB2, Ingres and others.

SSTGlobal offers a full line of decompilers for midrange and mainframe
systems that generate new source from your program objects quickly and flawlessly. AS/400.

University of Limerick for COBOL lecture notes, COBOL Programming Exercises with sample solutions, a large number of example COBOL programs, tutorials on the COBOL Report Writer and a comprehensive set of COBOL tutorials making a full COBOL course. It supports the COBOL programming modules taught at the University of Limerick.

XMLBooster for COBOL if you are interested in fast XML processing.

PIR Group Inc. supports a wide range of COBOL and RPG source code Legacy System Transformation products and services. Database conversion utilities from common mainframe formats (DB2, IMS/DLI, IDMS, VSAM) may be converted to the AS/400 relational database DB2/400 or into Windows NT based database structures such as ORACLE, Informix, and SyBase as well as those found in the JD Edwards, JBA, PeopleSoft, and similar type packages.