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COBOL Report Generator

Print graphical COBOL reports in Windows with RPV Reports. Insert graphics (images, photos, logos, charts, etc.) into your COBOL reports to improve the print quality of your reports. See how RPV Reports can be used to preview or print graphical COBOL reports in Windows.

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Are your mainframe COBOL applications properly documented? DCD III is a comprehensive COBOL documentation and application understanding tool that will allow you to reduce maintenance, development, and mainframe migration costs. Learn more about how you can document and understand your mainframe COBOL applications with DCD III.

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Welcome 

Welcome to our COBOL programming portal with references from COBOL mainframe to PC where you will find resources on COBOL jobs, compilers, program code examples, tutorials, user groups, and many other COBOL programming language resources.

The COBOL User Groups (COBUG) global community consists of IT management, COBOL programmers, consultants, database administrators, developers, system analysts, students, and vendors.


Become a Member

Join COBUG today and connect to a global network of your peers. You are sure to benefit from the COBUG newsletters, compilation of the latest news, events, path to vendors, and feedback from local user groups.

Check out the COBOL Forums

We have COBOL forums from the mainframe to the PC. By using the forums, you help the COBOL community at large gain knowledge. You can ask COBOL questions, receive support, and share tips & tricks through the COBOL forums.

Contribute to the COBOL Community

Share your expertise or experiences with the COBOL community. It helps build a stronger community. Your contributions can be in the form of papers, success stories, experiences, web site links, and other COBOL programming resources that will benefit the community at large.

COBUG is a member of the  All Things COBOL  web Ring.

User Groups 

COBOL User Group Meeting Registration
26th of November 2009
Johannesburg, South Africa

Topic:  Modernisation of the COBOL Warrior

COBOL User Group Event
March 2009
South Africa

Topic:  21st Century COBOL on the Microsoft Platform

Local COBOL user groups are great resources for how vendors implement technologies such as Service Oriented Architecture, Distibuted Architecture, Java, .Net, XML, etc.

They provide an opportunity for you to network and share experiences with peers in your local area.

Help build a local COBOL community and join a user group near you.

We welcome the following local COBOL user groups that were recently formed:

Australia

Melbourne COBOL User Group (MELCUG)

India

Bangalore COBOL User Group (BANGCUG)

Mexico

Mexico COBOL User Group (MEXCUG)

United States

Chicago COBOL Users Group (ChiCOBOL)
Cleveland Area COBOL Users Group (CLEVCUG)
Mid Atlantic COBOL Users Group (MACUG)

Call for User Group Leaders

Get Involved Today! This call for user group leaders is an opportunity for you to participate in building a local COBOL community in your area. You can join other user group leaders in your local area to form a 3-5 person leadership committee that will help build a local user group.

COBOL Jobs 

Here are a few of the recent COBOL jobs posted on the COBUG job site:

Title: COBOL Training of Trainers (ToT) wanted in Belgium for development project in South Africa
Experience: COBOL, Mainframe

Location: Wommelgem, Belgium
Duration: June - July 2010; 1.5 - 3 weeks

Title: Application Renewal - Legacy - Consultant
Experience: 4+ years development experience with the following: COBOL; JCL; SQL; CICS; DB2; SQL Server.
4+ years hands on experience with the following: COBOL tools, Microsoft IIS.
4+ years experience in application development and distributed programming (i.e. Java, .Net; Window Server; UNIX; TCP/IP; MS dev tools (C#, C++, VB, ASAP, JSP), MS Excel.
4+ years experience with: Technology Architecture (Mainframe, Client Server, Web); Project Planning and Estimating; Systems Analysis and Assessment; Project Management.
Location: Washington, District of Columbia
Duration: Permanent Employment

Title: COBOL Programmer
Experience: At least 5 years, experience programming in Cobol.
Minimum of 2 years experience programming in Acucobol compiler and Acubench generator.
Experience working with Windows NT.
Experience working with Vision files.
Location: Burbank, California
Duration: Permanent Employment

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COBOL User Contributions 

These are articles, technical tips, white papers, and application programs submitted to COBUG by COBOL users, and they should be of interest to the COBOL community:

The COBOL Compiler - Hidden Benefits

COBOL Programming Design Patterns, Introduction to COBOL Batch Processing

Please, Not Another 50 Years

COBOL IF ELSE END-IF - Technical Tip

Believe It or Not

Beware of SQL (Structured Query Language)

Ludicrous

Hopefully Not Another Thirty Years

Wake Up and Smell the Roses

The Future of the Mainframe

Dynamic Software productivity is still available

What Does The Future Hold For COBOL

COBOL Costly Judgement Errors

COBOL Source Code Samples


COBOL News COBOL News COBOL
News Articles

>  COBOL at 50: Same Age as Barbie, But More Like Rodney
Last Thursday, May 28, was COBOL's 50th birthday. COBOL may share the same age as Barbie, that icon of American ideals about beauty and consumerism, and a product of Mattel--an AS/400 shop that was once featured on the cover of AS/400 Technology SHOWCASE magazine.

>  The 2009 IT career survival guide
Cobol skills can be great job insurance, for example. And don't forget about skills that have been hot for a while and thus tend to be neglected, such as open source, .Net, and Java.

>  COBOL Into the Clouds
Does COBOL have a place in cloud computing? Cloud computing is about services, not languages. Many people would tell you that you need to start learning Ruby or Python in order to use cloud technology.

>  Alchemy Solutions Shows Moving COBOL to .NET Isn't Magic
Alchemy Solutions, established as a subsidiary of TMV Holdings, purchased Fujitsu's NetCOBOL legacy modernization portfolio and distribution rights outside Japan. Under the agreement, Alchemy Solutions will own, market, sell, support and enhance the .NET legacy modernization portfolio, including NeoKicks NeoBatch, NeoSort and NeoData.

>  Micro Focus Snatches Relativity, Expands App Modernization
Micro Focus, a U.K.-based software company that strongly believes in aligning software with business requirements, broadening its product line, and extended its geographical reach, last week bought Relativity Technologies, a company with a similar philosophy and product set, but with a slightly different niche.

>  Legacy modernization opens Windows for publisher
"It was hard at the time to convince people that Windows could run what they were seeing on the mainframe," he said of the book publisher's transfer of five million lines of COBOL to a .NET environment.
Product News

>   Cloud Automation for z/OS: Cloud Compiling and First National Technology Solutions Partner to Provide Virtual Compiling as a Service for the Mainframe
ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cloud Compiling announced today that it has entered into a partnership with First National Technology Solutions (FNTS), a subsidiary of First National of Nebraska, to provide a state of the art data center to host Cloud Compiling SaaS, a suite of virtual language compilers for z/OS.

>   Cloud Computing for the Mainframe: Cloud Compiling to Unveil Virtualized Language Compilers for z/OS at SHARE
ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cloud Compiling announced today that it will unveil its family of virtualized COBOL, PL/1, Fortran and C/C++ compilers for z/OS at the upcoming SHARE technology conference, taking place from August 1-5, 2010 in Boston, MA.

>   Press Release: Just published: Murach's Oracle SQL and PL/SQL
Mike Murach & Associates has just published a new book for developers entitled Murach's Oracle SQL and PL/SQL. It teaches how to write efficient SQL statements to extract and update the data in an Oracle database.

>   IBM COBOL Café
IBM created this online Café community to provide in-depth information to help you take advantage of IBM's COBOL technology.

>   Press Release: New Transoft product gives benefits of relational databases to organizations using COBOL applications
June 12, Atlanta, GA - Transoft, an expert in innovative modernization software and services solutions, today announced the launch of CIO, its new product which enables organizations to maximise the potential of their existing systems by using COBOL applications with relational databases (RDBMS), replacing older proprietary COBOL ISAM file handlers.

>   Clerity Extends Leading Migration and Modernization Role With Strategic Investment in COBOL and Java Technology Innovator Veryant, Inc.
Clerity Solutions, Inc. (Clerity) announced that it has entered into an agreement to invest and take controlling interest in Veryant, Inc., a ground-breaking software technology firm focused on delivering comprehensive, cost-effective COBOL development and Java deployment solutions.

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Upcoming COBOL Events Upcoming Events COBOL
Gartner
Business Intelligence & Information Management Summit
Sydney, Australia
March 2-3, 2010

SHARE
SHARE in Seattle
Seattle, Washington
March 14-18, 2010

Gartner
CIO Leadership Forum
Phoenix, Arizona
March 21-23, 2010

Northeast User Groups
Northeast User Groups 20th Anniversary Conference, the premeire IBM i(iSeries, AS/400) event
Framingham, Massachusetts
April 12-14, 2010

Gartner
Conferéncia Gartner de Integração Empresarial
São Paulo, Brazil
Abril 13-14, 2010
Gartner
CIO Leadership Forum
London, United Kingdom
April 27-28, 2010

COMMON
IT Executive Conference
Orlando, Florida
May 3-5, 2010

CA
CA World 2010
Las Vegas, Nevada
May 16-20, 2010

Gartner
SOA & Application Development and Integration Summit
London, United Kingdom
June 14-15, 2010

Connect
NonStop Symposium and Expo
San Jose, California
September 27-29, 2010
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