IBM COBOL for AIX

Integrates COBOL applications with web services, XML, and Java

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Building critical COBOL applications 

IBM COBOL for AIX® is a development environment for building business-critical COBOL applications on Power® systems. It includes a COBOL compiler, a runtime library for application development use, and a debugger that lets you visually debug a program from your workstation. IBM COBOL Runtime Environment for AIX 5.1 is required to deploy applications built with COBOL for AIX into production.

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Application performance maximization

COBOL for AIX is designed to take advantage of hardware advancements, delivering superior performance, reliability, and energy efficiency. A backend optimizer improves the performance of the applications, and this component is common among IBM XL compilers (XL C, XL C/C++, and XL Fortran).

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XML and Java interoperability

COBOL for AIX lets you integrate your COBOL applications with web services, XML, and Java. It gives you control over the XML documents you generate, and facilitates the interoperability of COBOL and Java programs based on the facilities of the Java Native Interface.

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Debugging support

COBOL for AIX includes a debugger that supports problem determination capabilities for 32-bit and 64-bit applications.

 

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Middleware integration

COBOL for AIX delivers recent programming interfaces to middleware to facilitate application integration and modernization.

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Technical details

Software requirements

COBOL for AIX 5.1 and its generated object programs run on the following operating systems:

  • AIX 6.1 TL 2 or later
  • AIX 7.1
  • AIX 7.2 with Feb 2016 PTF and later PTFs
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Hardware requirements

To run effectively, COBOL for AIX 5.1 requires the following harware requirements:

  • An SVGA 800 x 600 display (1024 x 764 recommended)
  • 256 MB of memory (512 MB, or higher, recommended)
  • 210 MB of disk space for the COBOL compiler, tools, and product information

 
Resources Data sheet: COBOL for AIX, V5.1

Learn about the functionality, advantages, and capabilities of COBOL for AIX, V5.1.

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See a complete list of the latest releases, refreshes, fix packs and interim fixes sorted by version for IBM COBOL for AIX.

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