RM/COBOL Overview

Providing components specifically designed to combine the power and flexibility of today's newer technologies with the proven efficiency of COBOL

The RM Product Set includes a comprehensive portfolio of integrated tools that enables you to maintain a single set of source code while deploying applications on the most popular open platforms. You retain the reliability of COBOL while integrating existing applications with today's cutting edge technologies.

It's all possible with a comprehensive suite of solutions from Micro Focus, which support the best of existing systems and open platforms, providing an easy path to integrate, modernize, and transform your COBOL applications. Micro Focus technology enables the separation of the presentation and logic layers of an existing application. This allows different interface technologies to access the same application and data for true distributed computing across the enterprise.

RM Product Set Benefits:

• First step to distributed, client/server - supporting evolutionary path forward
• Portability to open system platforms (UNIX, NT, and DOS/WIN) - maintaining one code base
• Preserve existing application logic, taking advantage of new technologies
• Respond to user demand for graphical user interfaces
• Reduces time to market, return on investment (ROI) pressures
• Proven, time-tested - 1200 ISVs moving their business forward with 3 million runtimes in use

RM/COBOL Compiler and Runtime System  - Proven Portability Standard

RM/COBOL's sophisticated runtime system permits the maintenance of single source and object code - and the easy deployment of applications on a wide choice of open client/server platforms. 

RM/InfoExpress - Remote File Sharing and Management

RM/InfoExpress is a powerful file transfer mechanism that optimizes shared access to remote RM/COBOL data files across the network. From the moment it is installed, RM/InfoExpress transparently enhances file transfer on networks with heavy read/write traffic and with no special coding required. 

Cobol-CGI™ - Common Gateway Interface

Cobol-CGI is a remarkably easy way to integrate your COBOL application with the Internet's World Wide Web. So easy in fact, that you can have your first COBOL program connected to the Web in a matter of minutes!  With Cobol-CGI you directly connect your Web pages to COBOL programs. No need for a Perl interpreter or scripts. No need to rewrite your server programs to be event driven. Cobol-CGI makes it easy for your COBOL application to communicate directly with the Web. 

Cobol-RPC™ - Remote Procedure Call

This implementation of RPC specifically for RM/COBOL allows for the development of distributed applications without extra development effort. With Cobol-RPC you can deploy your application across LANs, WANs, and even the Internet, using Windows or UNIX servers. 

WOW Extensions™ - Windows Object Workshop

WOW Extensions gives you an easy-to-use, integrated development environment that supports screen design, coding, compiling, and testing in a modern visual environment.  The "object oriented" approach to Windows controls and their many properties makes it easy to maximize the rich features that Windows provides, and to directly call over 150 Windows API functions, which gives you significant flexibility. 

InstantSQL™ - Database Access With RM/COBOL

InstantSQL provides a simplified way of using popular relational databases directly from within your RM/COBOL application.