ICOBOL Revision 4.41 Has Arrived!

We have released our product on the first new platform in many years. Due to the increased popularity of the Apple Mac, revision 4.30 and up is now available for Mac OS X (x86). As always, the latest revision also builds on previous releases with feature enhancements, bug fixes, and up to date third party components. One of those great enhancements made recently to ICOBOL 4 is the ability to write any of your sequential report files in .pdf format and even merge the report text with custom background forms. Click here to check out the details.

Note that ICOBOL 4 requires a new license if you are coming from ICOBOL 3 or ICOBOL 2. Please visit our pricing page for current prices.

We have worked to make the upgrade from ICOBOL 3 to ICOBOL 4 as simple as possible. For most customers it will be as simple as upgrading from one minor version to the next.

In addition, we have provided an upgrade path for ICOBOL 2 customers who remained at that revision because parts of their application were not available to be recompiled for ICOBOL 3. The ICOBOL 4 runtime has the ability to run in an ICOBOL 2 compatibility mode. Our latest .pdf printing feature can work with your ICOBOL 2 programs as well.

It has been almost 10 years since we first introduced ICOBOL 3, with many enhancements along the way, such as our thinclient products, scripted icsort, integrated SQL, and the ability to do simple email. In this major revision we have done a lot of work "under the hood" to enhance various features of our client-server products (which include the thinclient, client-server I/O, and file logging) and to pave the way for some great new features that are still under development.

The new combination character-GUI thinclient opens the opportunity to selectively use SP2 or FormPrint features in the thinclient environment without having to convert your entire application to SP2. Our client-server I/O offers better data security and integrity. Our new remote logging features provide better data integrity and better performance, and they open up the ability for better disaster recovery.

Are You Running on Borrowed Time?

Perhaps you recognize names like Eclipse MV/8000® and AViiON® because you're still running that old Data General system with Interactive COBOL. If so, you're running on borrowed time - a major system failure is looming closer and closer.  Can you afford to be down for days or weeks while you scour the country for replacement parts?  Have you checked your backups lately to make sure you can recover from a crashed disk drive? Even if you are lucky, and your system stays up for another year, it is another year of lost productivity as you run on a a machine that is hundreds of times slower than today's processors. Why not make the move to one of our many open systems platforms today?

Give us a call and ask about our migration services. We can help.

Remove your platform dependencies

Create completely portable business applications that will run efficiently on today's most popular computing platforms. We're so convinced you'll like this newfound freedom that we offer a 30-day money-back guarantee.

The World Wide Web ... your application needs to be there!

Why not develop and maintain your dynamic web application in the language you know best? COBOL! 

Click here to see cgiCOBOL in action - it may be just the answer you're looking for! And if you can't or don't want to do it yourself, we may be able to help with our Internet services.

Leverage the data behind your COBOL applications in powerful ways!

If you need to access your data:

• from a Windows program, such as Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, or Crystal Reports
• over an intranet or the internet
• or even from an application written in C

we have the tools to make it happen. Check out our ODBC Driver, Client/Server File Access, and User Library products.