looksoftware brings Open Access to COBOL, a groundbreaking and significant step forward for the highly popular business development language.
COBOL developers can now deliver state-of-the-art web, smartphones, tablets, rich desktop, cloud services, application integration and other modern technology requirements for today and the future, whilst maintaining core support for existing COBOL skills and source code.
The COBOL language can now leverage all the technological advantages of Open Access that has up until now been only available to RPG developers.
Easy to learn and implement, unlimited power and capability
looksoftware have architected Open Access for COBOL so that it is instantly familiar to COBOL developers. Developers can use the same syntax and techniques they are already familiar with. They do not need to write their applications differently. It is extremely flexible, because the API being invoked has almost limitless capabilities for modern devices and interfaces.
In addition to development of new and modern applications, looksoftware are providing the capability to automatically convert the output logic for existing COBOL source code. This means with applications that have already been developed, can quickly and easily be transformed to support modern devices.
IBM i’s most advanced design environment – Now supporting COBOL and RPG
For design of graphical screens, looksoftware’s industry leading newlook version10 IDE enables quick and easy layout of high-quality, intuitive graphical interfaces and multiple devices with a single effort.
In addition to COBOL, looksoftware’s IDE supports graphical layout for RPG Open Access and existing 5250 (non-OA) screens, seamlessly switching between these different environments at runtime.
IBM supported standards for graphical applications - OAMOS
Open Access for COBOL is fully compliant with the Open Access Metadata Open Standard (OAMOS). This ensures that modern COBOL development utilizes a well-thought architecture, consistency, and open standards when developing graphical applications. More information can be found here: http://ibmioa.com.
“COBOL remains a popular and highly respected language, and we are excited to deliver all the benefits and capabilities of modern development that looksoftware have already introduced to the RPG world.” says Brendan Kay, CEO of looksoftware.
openlook support for COBOL will be generally available in June 2014 from looksoftware.
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