In this release, Microsoft Visual Studio is now the core IDE for maintaining and developing applications that have been migrated from the mainframe and that still use CICS, JCL and IMS. You use the Microsoft Visual Studio and its integrated development environment (IDE) to develop, compile as native code, and debug your applications. You can then deploy and further debug the application under the Server Enterprise Edition run-time system.
The development features include:
- Project templates for native COBOL applications, including Mainframe Subsystem applications, Console applications, and Windows applications
- Editing native COBOL- with syntax colorization and background parsing
- Debugging native COBOL - with the usual features such as stepping, breakpoints and watch windows
- Mainframe application support - for editing, compiling and debugging CICS programs, JCL applications and IMS applications
- Project properties for native COBOL
- Scanning existing files when they are added to a project to scan for the dialect, EXEC CICS and EXEC SQL statements, and to set directives accordingly
