COBOL IDE's

Are there any IDE's being widely used for cobol development apart from
Microfocus especially since they acquired AcuCorp?

IBM plugs a product Rational Developer for Z (formerly WebSphere
Developer and I guess Visual Age afore that)- dunno if that's widely
used- any ideas?

This link http://www.geocities.com/SiliconVall...121/cobol.html which
is a good 10 years old, lists a handful but like I said above, the Acu
entries aren't valid, i guess.
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On Mar 15, 4:06 pm, Pakku <pa...@soccermail.com> wrote:
> Are there any IDE's being widely used for cobol development apart from
> Microfocus especially since they acquired AcuCorp?
>
> IBM plugs a product Rational Developer for Z (formerly WebSphere
> Developer and I guess Visual Age afore that)- dunno if that's widely
> used- any ideas?
>
> This linkhttp://www.geocities.com/SiliconVall...121/cobol.htmlwhich
> is a good 10 years old, lists a handful but like I said above, the Acu
> entries aren't valid, i guess.
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Fujitsu did a plugin for Eclipse.

I never liked IDEs, I use Midnight Commander and SetEdit.

On Mar 14, 11:26 pm, Richard <rip...@azonic.co.nz> wrote:
> On Mar 15, 4:06 pm, Pakku <pa...@soccermail.com> wrote:
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> Fujitsu did a plugin for Eclipse.
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> I never liked IDEs, I use Midnight Commander and SetEdit.
Thanks for the response.

I don't know if I'd dismiss IDE's out of hand so quickly.  My own
experience is limited to the Microfocus Mainframe Express and it
provides an excellent replication of a Z/OS environment in terms of
JCL's and files and so on.  Much quicker to compile and execute a
program on my PC rather than submit a job and be 32nd in the queue or
something.
The built in animator/debugger is also really sweet.

I don't know if Microfocus's claims about savings on mainframe MIPS by
moving coding and unit testing to the workstation are correct- MFE is
a spendy piece of s/w.

"Pakku" <pakku@soccermail.com> wrote:
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> I don't know if I'd dismiss IDE's out of hand so quickly.  ...
> The built in animator/debugger is also really sweet.

For traditional COBOL, I primarily use the IDE for problematic debugging.
I've never seen an IDE that came anywhere close to a good programmer's
editor for sheer source editing. In COBOL, for example, there are lots of
good uses for column blocks, particularly in the DATA DIVIDSION, which
I've never seen in an IDE editor. But in an environment such as Visual
Studio, where the IDE is doing a lot of other things for you, like forms
design and IntelliSense, it makes much more sense to use the IDE for all
development. Also, most languages other than COBOL don't benefit so much
from features like column blocks. In the situations where they do, I use
Multi-Edit to do the edit and paste it into the IDE.
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