Cobol Studio Overview
COBOL Studio provides an extensive set of features that constitute a major breakthrough in COBOL applications development and maintenance. Such features include:
COBOL Editor
provides the "standard" code edition functionalities found in most development environments as well as a broad collection of additional potent mechanisms such as:
- Edition of programs "locally" without consuming CPU time on the mainframe.
- Code Browsing: Jump from any code point to the definition of a code element (e.g sections, paragraphs, variables).
- Code Structure Navigation.
- Code Auto-Completion.
- Syntax Highlighting (User-Configurable).
- Automatic Numbering of Lines.
- Code Bookmarks and Code Templates (code assisting).
Certification
COBOL Studio is integrated to the "motor" of Q-CARE, the ATX Software solution for automatic code certification. This (optional) functionality allows for automatically enforcing, at development?time, any enterprise-specific and industry recommended quality standards and best practices of COBOL programming.
Out of the box, this feature provides a comprehensive set of ready-to-use standards that implement, besides others, the IBM recommendations on COBOL programs tuning and optimization. Moreover, COBOL Studio automatically compares source code SQL statements with information generated by the DB2 Explain, enforcing the optimization of COBOL programs with respect to DB2 access.
The COBOL Studio editor provides the necessary facilities for the visualization and navigation of the code certification results enabling developers to immediately take the necessary corrective actions and deliver 100% quality code.
Syntactic Validation
COBOL Studio performs the syntactic validation and respective visualization and navigation of the results without the need to consume useful CPU time on the mainframe.
Remote Compilation
COBOL Studio provides the capacity to invoke remotely and in an integrated and transparent way the mainframe compiler and provide in a user-friendly way the visualization of the compilation results.
Optionally, COBOL Studio provides the capacity to disallow such a compilation request if violations of code quality aspects detected by the certification mechanism have not been corrected.
Integration
COBOL Studio is natively integrated to the CVS Code Management System, and integration-ready with Serena ChangeMan Dimensions. However, due to its highly-reconfigurable nature, integration to other similar code management solutions can be provided with little effort.
Extensibility
COBOL Studio is based on an open, extensible architecture that permits a wide variety of modules and functionalities to be easily introduced in order to satisfy the most diverse customers needs.