Data Management

z/Cobol™

COBOL compiler

Platform: z/VSE and VSEⁿ

A modernized COBOL compiler designed to optimize the outright power of the latest IBM z Series mainframe

• Measured to produce code that is 13 times faster than other VSE COBOL compilers.
• 100-percent compatible with IBM COBOL VSE/ESA 1.1.
• 100-percent compatible with DOS/VS COBOL 1.3.1.
• Meets and exceeds the 1985 COBOL Standard, ISO/IEC 1989:2014(E).
• Fully supported by a dedicated and time-proven software company.

Object Code Produced

• z Series 64 bit, utilizing all available hardware instructions.
• Extremely high performance.
• Completely reentrant; absolutely no SIIS code.
• No LE required for execution.
• Can receive control in 24 bit, 31 bit, or 64 bit.

Compatible

• Can call COBOL, PL/I, C, or Assembler that are 24 bit, 31 bit, or 64 bit.
• Supports all external pre-processors.
• CICS supported, including 64-bit virtual memory objects, and vectors.

Extensions for z/VSE and VSEn

• Built-in support for access to Librarian, ICCF, VSE/POWER, BIM-Edit, etc.
• All forms of VSE supported—DASD, tape, and VSAM files.
• Advanced-function printing.
• Support for 64-bit virtual memory objects.

Memory Extensions for Modernization

Multiple working storage sections, all in the same program:

• Standard, in 31-bit above-the-line storage.
• Low, in 24-bit below-the-line storage.
• High, in 64-bit above-the-bar, utilizing 64-bit virtual memory objects.

Shared working storage sections:

• Multiple COBOL programs in the same partition.
• Cross-partition sharing utilizing 64-bit virtual memory objects.

Report-writer compatible with ANSI 85 and ANSI 74 standards.

Communication section compatible with ANSI 85, utilizing TCP/IP.

Imagine what can be accomplished with a cutting-edge, unparalleled COBOL compiler that truly modernizes the mainframe.

Organizations need to do more than acquire cutting-edge hardware—they must have apex tools that truly optimize their investment.