isCOBOL General

Veryant's documentation is a good place to start. There is a section on isCOBOL and Java in the isCOBOL Evolve documentation, under "Introduction", "The Basics". One of the chapters is about class loading. The 2022 version of that documentation... Read More

A common topic to all three scenarios is the update of the license. When your update is for a later year release (ex: 2021R# to 2022R#), then you need to request licenses for your products for that year and update the properties file containing your... Read More

What differentiates isCOBOL from other COBOLs? What makes isCOBOL better? Key Technical Differentiators. Below are the 5 key differentiators that set isCOBOL technology apart from the competition. isCOBOL Key Technical Differentiators Core... Read More

The "PrintScreen" key is handled directly by the OS and cannot be referenced in COBOL. However you can write an isCOBOL program that could be run as hotkey program. For example, this setting in your properties file will run the program PRINTSCREEN... Read More

Question: Where can I find more information on A$ENCRYPT and A$DECRYPT? I am getting errors involving 'padding' and 'multiple of 8 bytes' when I use these routines. Answer: The size of the key passed to A$ENCRYPT or A$DECRYPT must be... Read More

Having the need to read a data, for example from a sequential file, written in UTF-8 on on machine where the default encoding is the Cp1252 you can use a java function that allow to 'translate' the data from the source encoding to the... Read More

IsCOBOL supports OO (Object Oriented syntax) that allows you to invoke a Method in a Java Class. To have additional help on writing the cobol code, isCOBOL IDE helps with its integrated isCOBOL Editor. For example, to know the operating system where... Read More

Sometimes the COBOL application needs to store information on temporary files. These files are then deleted at the end of the elaboration or at the end of the runtime session. Writing and reading these temporary files from the hard disk costs time.... Read More

The iscobol.call_cancel.hook runtime property can be used to provide the name of a custom class that will intercept the before and after moments of every CALL and CANCEL statement during a runtime session. That class would be written as an... Read More

A call to C$GETRUNENV will return your environment, with possible values defined in iscobol.def. Because the user-id for sessions running in WebClient will always be the user-id of the account that started the WebClient, you may need to create a... Read More