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  1. Free Cobol compiler by gadfium · · Score: 1 · on Join COBOL's Next Generation

    If you want to play with a free compiler, try OpenCOBOL at http://www.opencobol.org/.

    There is a list of other free COBOL compilers at http://mainframewizard.com/content/free-cobol-compilers but some of them look pretty old.

  2. not even C? by ChipMonk · · Score: 2 · on Join COBOL's Next Generation
    From the homepage of OpenCOBOL:

    OpenCOBOL translates COBOL into C and compiles the translated code using the native C compiler. You can build your COBOL programs on various platforms, including Unix/Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows.

    So would that be COBOL running on C?

  3. Re:I've seen it all. by hawguy · · Score: 3, Interesting · on US CIO/CTO: Idea of Hiring COBOL Coders Laughable

    I wish I had COBOL for Linux

    Looks like it's still a work in progress, but: http://www.opencobol.org/

  4. Re:Stereotyping? by luke_z3 · · Score: 1 · on Something For (Almost) Every Developer

    I, too, was hoping for an update on OpenCOBOL

  5. OpenCOBOL is out there, and it's free too. by Nick+Driver · · Score: 1 · on US Postal Service Moves To GNU/Linux

    I'm in the middle of porting an accounting system that's currently Cobol-based, and running on an RS6000/AIX, to Linux using OpenCOBOL . OpenCOBOL is GPL'ed too. The machine hardware I'm porting to is an HP Proliant DL380 and the distro is Red Hat Enterprise 5 64-bits. So far everything is going great. I'm not even a Cobol programmer, and had to alter very little of the application source code to compile and run under OpenCOBOL on Linux, mostly just some raw unix file I/O code, and it took me less than a day to learn enough Cobol to fix the source code and recompile it to work under Linux.

  6. OpenCOBOL on Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative · on Automated Migration From Cobol To Java On Linux

    Cobol apps from mainframes easily runs on Linux when you just simply recompile using the free, open source, GPL'ed OpenCobol compiler. I've moved a bunch of old IBM mainframe cobol stuff to Linux with OpenCOBOL and so far, I've run into very few issues, none of which weren't solvable with a minimal amount of code changes.

    OpenCOBOL also works great if you have any Oracle Cobol apps (that used the Oracle Pro*Cobol precompiler). I'm in the middle of moving a bunch of Cobol-on-Oracle stuff from an old RS/6000 AIX box to 64-bit Linux right now. I'm using Oracle's free "Oracle Enterprise Linux" which is basically a repackaged RHEL distro, and you can even buy formal support contract from Oracle for OEL. So far everything is working out great. The commodity hardware (HP Proliant DL580) server costs a mere fraction of what a new AIX box of comparable power would've cost, and I'm also benefiting from Oracle's free Virtual Server stuff (Xen-based) so I've got the functional equivalent of IBM's LPAR virtual machine technology going on commodity hardware with 10 times the speed, and 1/10th the hardware cost.

  7. Re:How do people learn it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Cobol Job Market Heating Up

    $apt-cache search cobol
    src2tex - A converter from source program files to TeX format files
    exuberant-ctags - build tag file indexes of source code definitions
    libcob1 - COBOL compiler - runtime library
    libcob1-dev - COBOL compiler - development files
    open-cobol - COBOL compiler
    robodoc - source code documentation tool
    sloccount - programs for counting physical source lines of code (SLOC)
    $apt-cache show libcob1
    Package: libcob1
    Priority: optional
    Section: libs
    Installed-Size: 216
    Maintainer: Bart Martens
    Architecture: i386
    Source: open-cobol
    Version: 1.0-1
    Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7-1), libdb4.5 (>= 4.5.20-3), libgmp3c2, libncurses5 (>= 5.6+20071006-3)
    Filename: pool/main/o/open-cobol/libcob1_1.0-1_i386.deb
    Size: 76034
    MD5sum: c269edbbf49cf8b1db508d597dc32ca4
    SHA1: 62234e015a5b1f1e9c387994a7b03758338d8248
    SHA256: 4ec17c66f1cba57dcec4090242c77a7d824dc2f3509d62e746bd37fde7968567
    Description: COBOL compiler - runtime library
      This package contains the runtime library for open-cobol.
    Homepage: http://www.opencobol.org/
    Tag: role::shared-lib, uitoolkit::ncurses

  8. open source COBOL by cavehobbit · · Score: 1 · on Modernizing the Common Language - COBOL

    I am surprised no one has found this: http://www.opencobol.org/

  9. Re:But it is modern! by satherto · · Score: 1 · on Modernizing the Common Language - COBOL

    It has probably already been posted but I haven't noticed the open source COBOL compilers that already exist so here are a couple of free Cobol compilers that I've played with.

      Cobol for GCC http://cobolforgcc.sourceforge.net/ is dead

      Tiny Cobol http://tiny-cobol.sourceforge.net/index.php last release was in 2005

      OpenCobol http://www.opencobol.org/ Still has one developer working on it.

    I like the OpenCOBOL the best, it takes your COBOL code, converts it to C, then compiles it using GCC. You might be able to kick start your project by looking at what these guys have done.