Awesome Cobol

A curated list of awesome Cobol frameworks, libraries and software. Inspired by awesome-python.

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Contents

• Awesome Cobol
  • Contributing
  • Contents
  • Software
    • Tools
    • IDE Extensions
  • Documentation
    • Exercises and Training
  • Community
  • Articles

Software

• GnuCOBOL
• GnuCOBOL for Windows
• COBOL for GCC (Sourcecode)
• OpenMainframe on Github

Tools

• Cobol-Check

IDE Extensions

• COBOL Source editing for Visual Studio Code
• cobol-mode for emacs

Documentation

• GnuCOBOL Guides (List)
• GnuCOBOL FAQ
• GnuCOBOL Programmer's Guide (PDF, A4 or US Letter, latest)
• GnuCOBOL Programmer’s Guide (HTML, 3.1 RC-1, July2020)
• GnuCOBOL Resources at OCamlPro
• COBOL Language Reference by Micro Focus (Visual Cobol)
• COBOL Docs on Exercism -> Resources
• Enterprise COBOL for z/OS documentation library

Exercises and Training

• COBOL on Exercism
• COBOL Tutorial on mainframetechhelp.de
• COBOL programming - tutorials, lectures, exercises, examples by Michael Coughlan
• Tools/Samples incl. Games (extra Repo on GnuCOBOL) 🔥
• Source code for 'Beginning COBOL for Programmers' by Michael Coughlan (The book)

Community

• GnuCOBOL User Email
• GnuCOBOL Forum
• OpenMainframe Forum
• DEV.TO Cobol Tag
• r/cobol subreddit
• stackoverflow
• Hackernews latest 'cobol'

Articles

• Cloudflare Workers Now Support COBOL
• How To Work With Cobol Copybooks Effectively
• IBM and Open Mainframe Project Mobilize to Connect States with COBOL Skills
• The Timeless Relevance of COBOL: Why This Vintage Language Still Matters
• Bruce Axtens Cobol Content
• tdd in Cobol (video)