isCOBOL IDE

When building a project or a complex program, you often find errors, warnings and infos in the “Problems” view for multiple files, and this can be confusing. For instance, here is the problems tab for six different programs.     Here are the... Read More

You can use the IDE to create data file descriptions and select statements using the Data View.  But if you have existing files, you do not need to enter them in the Data View.  isCOBOL's IDE can use FD/SL copybooks to generate the appropriate... Read More

a { text-decoration: none; color: #464feb; } tr th, tr td { border: 1px solid #e6e6e6; } tr th { background-color: #f5f5f5; } Every legacy COBOL application can be significantly improved by adding graphical reports. isCOBOL users... Read More

a { text-decoration: none; color: #464feb; } tr th, tr td { border: 1px solid #e6e6e6; } tr th { background-color: #f5f5f5; } Suppose you have four GUI controls as shown in the following screen. You want the “Code” label and its... Read More

The isCOBOL IDE includes a text file comparison feature. In order to take advantage of this feature: 1. Copy or link your text files to one of your project folders, unless they're already there   2. Select the two files that you want to... Read More

From the isCOBOL IDE, in addition to set the encoding on project level, you have also to declare the property 'file.encoding' into the iscobol.properties that you find in the 'resources' folder of the project. Read More

Veryant provides both an Eclipse plugin which can be installed within any Eclipse-based IDE, and also the isCOBOL IDE, which is Eclipse with the isCOBOL plugin already installed. The Eclipse-based isCOBOL IDE is for COBOL developers who are new to... Read More

It is easy to add and remove comments when editing in the isCOBOL IDE. You can use the buttons on the toolbar - they are, in order, Add Comment, Remove Comment and Toggle Comment To comment a block, highlight the lines you want to comment before... Read More

You can turn that off by going to Window -> Preferences -> isCOBOL -> Editor -> Content Assist. You can also specify which type of content the content assist option includes. For instance, you can choose to have the IDE only pop-up the names of... Read More

When you want to view two different consoles in the IDE to compare the outputs of two launches, you can do the following: In the Menu bar of the IDE go to "Windows > Preferences > Run/Debug > Launching" Then uncheck the option "Remove terminated... Read More