The COBOL file editor of Cobos brings the best of Eclipse to COBOL programers: a quick and simple browsing into files with the Outline, Syntax coloring, Autocompletion, Open declaration, Compilation error notifications, Code templates, Changes tracking, Versioning... . All these features have been tailor-made for the COBOL development. Cobos adds to these very convenient features some outstanding features such as a "Word like" revision mode, unfolding COBOL sources with COPY REPLACING expansion, customizable tabulations, mainframe-like CAPS ON.
Cobos comes with features & components enabling a deep and powerful integration with your mainframe environments, such as z/Navigator, je3270 (terminal emulator, a remote FTP access, extended CVS support...).
Big Blue is not your compilation target? Cobos is also packaged for Windows and UNIX operating systems, with additional features such as remote compilation and local program build capabilities, FTP access to UNIX resources...
Cobos provides mainframe developers with many cool features, in order to make mainframe application development more agile and to fit with specific environements: various SCM tool support, FTP remote access, local program build, 3270/5250 terminal emulator, COBOL, JCL, REXX, PL1, RPG editors …
The latest version of Cobos, the professional mainframe Smart Development Environment for Eclipse, has been released. Thanks to Cobos, work locally (edit, compile, etc.) on your workstation (Windows and Linux) or connected to your remote environments mainframe IBM i, IBM z/os, AIX, Unix and Windows.
Cobos is the most advanced open source COBOL IDE dedicated to Mainframe application development. Based on Eclipse, it combines the best of both worlds by leveraging Mainframe best practices and [...]
Cobos is designed for mainframe COBOL development enhancement. Because the 3270 access to mainframe remains the basic way of working with a mainframe (even if it's not the most comfortable), we [...]