Veryant is pleased to announce the latest release of isCOBOL™ Evolve, isCOBOL Evolve 2017 R1.

isCOBOL Evolve provides a complete environment for the development, deployment, maintenance, and modernization of COBOL applications.

The isCOBOL IDE is now based on Eclipse 4.5 Mars release, bringing powerful new aids to the developers, such as a Terminal View for command line use, GIT integration and filtered views.

List-box control has been revamped, by adding check boxes and radio buttons for easy multi o single item selection. Contents in list-box can now be exported to Microsoft Excel XLS and XLSX formats or copied to the system clipboard.

isCOBOL applications can now create and handle multi-platform system tray icons, which developers can leverage to bring even more features to end users.

Entry fields can now be spell-checked automatically, and allow placing bitmaps in both left and right edges of the text box to provide new user interface capabilities.

New library routines ease the job of user interface enhancements with easy to use calls.

The framework has been updated, with the new CrteeJ interface with high-performance in heady multi-threaded environments.

A new IsSort utility allows command-line or programmatic sorting, merging and filtering of indexed, relative and sequential files.

The compiler now creates more optimized classes, that use less memory and load faster, and can generate warning for unsupported statements in isCOBOL EIS html based solutions, and provide better migration support when moving from other COBOLs.

Application Server can now spawn multiple JVM processes and Thin Client applications consume less bandwidth for common statements.

Details on these enhancements and updates are included below.