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This page lists some external web sites which provide information about COBOL, and which we find to be useful for the COBOL community. RainCode assumes no responsibility regarding the accuracy of the information provided in these sites, and use of such information is at the recipient's own risk.

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You want to improve the quality of your COBOL sources?
You think code maintenance is money and time consuming?
Here is the solution: RainCode Online's restructuring service, which automatically restructures COBOL code.

If you are interested in fast XML processing, we suggest you visit the XMLBooster for COBOL website.

COBUG provides the COBOL community with a comprehensive web site that contains current references to COBOL compilers, code samples, COBOL jobs, and many other COBOL programming resources.

Another quite intersting website dedicated to COBOL is, as says its name, the COBOL Portal.

The COBOL Center website is dedicated to COBOL and to those with an investment in COBOL. It lists references, news, tools, etc. for the COBOL world.

Interested in COBOL's very own print feature? Learn about it on The COBOL Report Writer of SPC Systems.

The Flexus COBOL Page gives a list of COBOL tools organized per category.

This site contains COBOL lecture notes, COBOL Programming Exercises with sample solutions, a large number of example COBOL programs, tutorials on the COBOL Report Writer and a comprehensive set of COBOL tutorials making a full COBOL course. It supports the COBOL programming modules taught at the University of Limerick.

KOBOL is a royalty free, multi-platform compiler and IDE for the COBOL language. For less than $75 per developer you can create and deploy COBOL applications on Linux or Windows.

RLDT provides a fully transparent gateway between COBOL applications and database technology for unix and windows systems. Move your COBOL files to Databases. Fully compatible with SQL server, Oracle, Sybase, Informix, DB2, Ingres and others on demand.

Finally, you can have a look at the IBM COBOL.

In addition to the previous links, you might also want to use the following navigation bar to visit other COBOL-related websites.

March 2008: RainCode proudly releases a complete Datacom migration solution named DataKom which covers all aspects of Datacom migration: CA-IDEAL, COBOL programs and data migration.

September 2007: The RainCode Checker for COBOL computes the size and offsets of data elements according to the ANSI standard, and can be used to find and analyze data elements based on how and where they are represented physically in memory.

January 2007: The RainCode Checker for COBOL is released, with over 70 coding guidelines built-in. The RainCode Checker can be used to check large portfolios against project-wide or company-wide coding guidelines.

June 2006: The various versions of the RainCode engine now provides access to native lexical information from within scripts, so that coding guidelines related to the position of keywords, alignements, etc. can be coded much more efficiently than before.

February 2005: RainCode decides to distribute the RainCode Engine for Ada, C, and COBOL for FREE. Get your own license on RainCode Online.