Major Features

The following are the major features of Studio Enterprise Edition for UNIX:

• Development Environment

  Provides a menu-driven environment from which you can invoke the components of Studio Enterprise Edition for UNIX.

• Compiler

  Provides full support of many COBOL dialects, and can produce portable intermediate code, optimized generated code, and native object code that can be linked to produce system executables or ultra-efficient callable shared objects.

• Run-time support programs and libraries

  Contain routines supporting advanced features of the COBOL language.

• Interface Mapping Toolkit

  Enables you to expose an existing COBOL application to non-COBOL clients, by using the Web Services or EJB technology to deploy the application as a service. You deploy the service under Server Enterprise Edition, described below.

• XML-enabled COBOL

  Provides a set of syntax extensions you can code in your COBOL program manually, or generate automatically using the CBL2XML Wizard or command line utility. You can use these extensions to perform input/output on an XML instance document rather than using a traditional file method such as an index file.

• Server Enterprise Edition

  Provides an environment in which you deploy services written in COBOL. It listens for requests from client applications to invoke the services. It also provides functions such as scalability, thus saving programming time. A copy is optionally installed on your development machine with Studio Enterprise Edition for UNIX for use in testing.

• Animator

  Provides enhanced debugging support for all executable file formats, and for mixed-language applications, multi-threaded applications, and other active COBOL processes.

• Data tools

  The Rebuild utility and Data File Editor enable you to recover, reconstruct, examine, modify and convert COBOL data files.

• FaultFinder.

  Provides production-time problem tracking.

• Database support

  Provides both a DB2 compatible relational database, XDB, and additional SQL support software that provides seamless integration with a number of other vendors' database systems.

• Web interface support.

  Provides utilities that enable you to create COBOL applications for the Web.

In addition to the above, command line interfaces are available. Notable are:

• cob command - invokes the Compiler and linker. It can also invoke your UNIX system's C compiler, C++ compiler, assembler and linker, if they are installed on your system.
• cobrun command - runs your intermediate code, generated code, or callable shared object code.
• imtkmake command - provides a command-line interface for creating a service, with a simplified version of the options available in the Interface Mapping Toolkit.