Rocket® Visual COBOL® Personal Edition (formerly a Micro Focus® product)
Build new skills in modern COBOL development.
Rocket® Visual COBOL® Personal Edition (formally a Micro Focus® product) helps you build and modernize COBOL applications using the most popular integrated development environments (IDEs)–Visual Studio or Eclipse. Tune your skills with the next generation in COBOL development–Visual COBOL.
Visual Studio
Learn COBOL using Microsoft Visual Studio.
Get advanced COBOL editing and debugging, as well as continuous background compilation, auto complete, code analysis and code search—all integrated within Microsoft Visual Studio.
- Build, debug, compile and test COBOL programs using the latest Microsoft IDE.
- Combine COBOL, C#, and other .NET languages within one integrated COBOL development toolset.
Eclipse
Learn COBOL using the Eclipse IDE.
Streamline application delivery with advanced editing and debugging. It features continuous background compilation, code analysis, code search, and remote debugging.
- Build, debug, compile and test COBOL programs using the latest Eclipse IDE.
- Combine COBOL, Java and other JVM-based languages within one integrated development toolset.
Latest COBOL Research Results
70%
core business transaction processing runs on COBOL.
800B
Lines of COBOL code in use today.
92%
Leaders say COBOL apps are strategic.