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Fujitsu NetCOBOL for HPUX

Standards Compliant

  • ANSI Standard COBOL X3.23 1985, ISO-1989-1985
  • ANSI '74 COBOL X3.23-1974

Full ANSI 85 Compliant to Include:

  • Nucleus
  • Sequential/Relative/Indexed File
  • Inter-Program Communication
  • Sort/Merge
  • Source Text Manipulation

Support for ANSI'85 Supplement:

  • Intrinsic Functions

Fujitsu Extensions

  • National language programming
  • National character handling
  • Extended Indexed File -- Multiple key items, reverse order access
  • National character printing
  • Sort/Merge of National characters
  • Floating-point data
  • Bit handling
  • Constant section
  • Functions for system program description -- pointer, etc.

XPG4 Specification (X/OPEN Extensions)

  • Line/Sequential file handling
  • Inter-language communications -- passing parameters by value, special register Return-Code
  • File sharing and record locking
  • Screen handling
  • Access to command-line arguments
  • Concatenated expressions

Compatibility Support

  • OS/VS COBOL
  • VS COBOL II
  • Micro Focus

SQL

  • Most databases using VORTEX from Trifox (www.trifox.com)
  • Oracle (using Oracle Pro*COBOL)
  • SymfoWARE/RDB (using SymfoWARE/RDB precompiler)

IBM OS/VS COBOL Compatibility Features Supported

  • Special registers for date, time, return code, sort, etc.
  • System directing statements (example EJECT, SKIP)
  • REMARKS paragraph
  • EXAMINE statement
  • GOBACK statement
  • BASIS statement

IBM VS COBOL II Compatibility Features Supported

  • POINTER variables

Micro Focus COBOL Extensions

  • Enhanced ACCEPT and DISPLAY verbs to permit video terminal screen I/O with full control over data positioning on output and protected/unprotected on input fields
  • Full-screen output and multiple-field input; validation of input with a single COBOL statement
  • Enhanced file I/O with additional-line-sequential organization to handle text files

Programming-Staff (COBOL Development Environment)

  • User-selectable program editor
  • Framework for program compilation
  • MAKE function
  • Program development tools and utilities -- Debug tool; search to focus on source line in error
  • Support for WYSIWYG character-mode screen designer

Debug Tool Capabilities

  • Setting/removing complex breakpoints
  • Displaying variables
  • Recording and playing back a debugging procedure to retest user's code
  • Performing batch debugging and automated debugging operations
  • Reversing code execution
  • Stepping over and through statements