This book shows you how to start using Studio Enterprise Edition to develop COBOL applications. The tutorials introduce the major features of Studio Enterprise Edition within Microsoft Visual Studio.
Features
This chapter introduces you to the main features of Studio Enterprise Edition.
Mainframe Tutorials
This section contains tutorials for developing on a mainframe, including how to develop CICS, IMS, JCL and Open PL/I applications.
Native COBOL Tutorials
This section contains tutorials covering the production of native COBOL.
Managed COBOL Tutorials
This section contains tutorials covering the production of managed COBOL.
Procedural COBOL Compared with Managed COBOL
Procedural COBOL is regular COBOL without any of the new syntax that has been added for .NET and JVM. Managed COBOL is the collective term for .NET COBOL and JVM COBOL.