isCOBOL General

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

To solve this problem you can normally read the line-sequential file, then before using the contents of the record you can call a specific java function for the translation. Attached below is a Cobol sample program that reads a file created with... 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

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

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

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

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