Enhancements are available in the following areas:
Micro Focus has released a new video-based training course in COBOL, Micro Focus™ COBOL Fundamentals Course. The course teaches the fundamentals of the COBOL language, introduces the Micro Focus™ COBOL syntax, and usage of Micro Focus COBOL tools.
The course is ideal for developers familiar with C, Java, or .NET who want to learn COBOL. It doesn't matter what language you know, as long as you have experience of standard programming concepts, this course is for you.
A new Learn Micro Focus™ COBOL Extension for Visual Studio Code is available. The extension comes with the training materials for the COBOL training course. For information about the COBOL course, and the Learn Micro Focus™ COBOL Extension for Visual Studio Code, visit www.cobol.com.
The following features are now available in the Micro Focus COBOL Extension for Visual Studio Code when you use it with Visual COBOL 9.0:
This release provides the following enhancements to .NET support:
This release provides the following new features and enhancements to the COBOL language:
The following enhancements add further support for the IBM Enterprise COBOL version 6.4:
This release provides the following enhancements.
A new mechanism for setting Compiler directives (Technology Preview):
New Compiler directives:
A family of new Compiler directives has been introduced to support the new mechanism for interoperation between Java and native COBOL:
This release provides the following enhancements:
Previously, the upgrade process required manual intervention to redeploy existing configuration settings. This now occurs automatically.
Enhancements are available in the following areas:
This release provides the following new features and enhancements:
This release includes support for the following:
Automatically include the child objects of each parent object.
Repeat until no more parents and children are found.