Language Environment support for COBOL

Language Environment® is a prerequisite for application programs written in COBOL.

Changes to CICS support for application programming languages lists the COBOL compilers that are supported by CICS® Transaction Server for z/OS®, Version 5 Release 6 , and their service status on z/OS. For information about Language Environment, see z/OS Language Environment Customization.

To run COBOL application programs:

Install support for Language Environment, ensuring that CICS can initialize Language Environment during startup.
Install resource definitions for your programs with the LANGUAGE attribute specified as LANGUAGE(COBOL), or leave the language blank.

For your application programs, CICS can create and install program resource definitions automatically, or you can create them specifically in the CICS system definition file (CSD), and install them by using the GRPLIST system initialization parameter or CEDA INSTALL command. For more information about installing program resource definitions, see Resource management transaction CEDA commands.