isCOBOL General

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

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

Let's see how to do so. From the isCOBOL IDE: 1. Click on the screen title bar to see the list of the properties in the 'Properties' view. 2. Choose the 'background image' in the prop erties' list 3. Click on 'image file... Read More

In the 2016 R1 release, isCOBOL added the ability to configure attributes of a program-generated PDF file. To set the default attributes for PDF prints in your programs, use the configuration variables that start with "iscobol.print.attribute". For... 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

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

Question: What work is necessary to use Flexus COBOL sp2? Has it been tested? Answer: Yes, this has been tested and a customer application with GUI calls to SP2 functions has successfully run with isCOBOL. Set... Read More

Question: What are the basic differences between JISAM and c-treeRTG? What are the guidelines for choosing between them? Answer: Here are the benefits of each: Veryant JISAM isCOBOL Evolve supplies a high capacity, client/server, indexed ISAM... Read More

You can choose which file status codes you want to use by setting the iscobol.file.status runtime framework property iscobol.file.status This property specifies which file status codes to use. Set it to one of the following values: com... Read More

Question: I'd like to be able to step debug through COBOL source into a call to Java and have a Java debugger pop-up or attach and allow me to step through the Java source. How can I currently do that? Also, is there a way to step from a... Read More