isCOBOL IDE

Question: On which version of Eclipse are the isCOBOL IDE's built? Can I use plug-ins that require older versions of Eclipse? Answer: The 2022 Version of Veryant's IDE is based on Eclipse 2021-09(4.21). This version is updated frequently... Read More

IsCOBOL IDE supports the background generation using standard Eclipse rules. This allows you to run a long build for a huge workspace with many programs that need to be generated, for instance. It's also useful when you have many programs... Read More

Question: I understand that the isCOBOL IDE is based on Eclipse. I guess I had better get up to speed on using Eclipse. What would be a good resource for that? Can you recommend a book? Answer: Veryant's documentation includes a comprehensive... Read More

Question: I'd like to set up a CVS repository and access it from Eclipse/isCOBOL IDE to use the Team development and project sharing features. Can you point me in the right direction? Answer: Here are the actual commands I ran on Ubuntu Linux... Read More

Veryant recommends the Subclipse plugin from https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/subclipse/ Here are the instructions to install Subclipse in the current isCOBOL IDE: Select Install New Software... from the Help menu Press the Add... button... Read More

This guide has four sections, the first two discuss how to update to a later build or release of the IDE, and how to update to a later isCOBOL SDK. The last two sections can be followed when you just need to take advantage of a compiler enhancement... Read More

The very first time you want to run a program inside the IDE, you right click in the name of the program and then you have to select "Run As" or "Debug As", then you can select any of the different options to run the program, as isCOBOL Application... Read More

IDE has the capability to use FD/SL copybooks to generate the appropriate COPY statement in the COBOL source. These are the steps to be followed: 1. In the Structural view expand your project, then expand your program and select 'File... Read More

Every legacy COBOL application can be improved dramatically by including graphical reports. isCOBOL users can do this by using the IDE Report Designer. Several advantages are by using the IDE Report Designer to generate reports, among those: -... Read More

Consider that you have a project like the following, showing errors on 3 programs and one of them have so many errors. And you want to see the errors of GMCws.cbl and nestedxml.cbl only. Do the following: 1) Click the down arrow on the Problems... Read More