Category Archives: COBOL

Arrays and the .Net Base Cass Library

Posted on November 13, 2009 by spgennard

Carrying on from the previous blog, the user of iterators in .Net and especially .Net on COBOL can be very useful. When CLR v2.0 was introduced a few new methods in System.IO.File for block reading/writing files were introduced, these works … Continue reading →

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TechEd 2009 – Keynote with Jazon and Mark

Posted on November 12, 2009 by spgennard

My boss (Mark Conway) the other day was lucky enough to demonstrate some of the wonders of next release at TechEd 2009 in the keynote with Jazon Zander’s entitled: “Visual Studio 2010: New Challenges, New Solutions” The demo shows off … Continue reading →

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Too Iterate or not…

Posted on November 10, 2009 by spgennard

Over the next couple of weeks, I will explore some of the reasons why I think managed environments are good for COBOL. So.. lets the show on the road… Setting up arrays/occurs items in COBOL and manipulating them can be … Continue reading →

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NUnit and COBOL.Net

Posted on November 6, 2009 by spgennard

A while back, I spent a afternoon converting some C# NUnit documentation into COBOL .Net, so I thought I would share the document with the world, with the hope that it will help any one interested in using NUnit and … Continue reading →

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Visual Debugger – Animator

Posted on November 5, 2009 by spgennard

This is a very old advertisement of our (Micro Focus) first COBOL debugger called animator in all its glory debugging the classic sample of the day pi.cbl, which calculates the value of PI. So why is so good? To put … Continue reading →

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Object COBOL/Java default exception handler

Posted on November 3, 2009 by spgennard

While working on some support recently for our compiler (Micro Focus COBOL compiler that is), I became annoyed with the lack of a reasonable error messages/stack trace output from our Java/COBOL Object support. I have no idea why our default … Continue reading →

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