A software to compile cobol first on the PC

Pankaj Gupta · New User Joined: 07 May 2008 Posts: 15 Location: Bangalore

I am thinking, is there a software on the PC with it I can compile my cobol programs? Then I will be getting good compile in one go when I am back on the mainframes. Does anyone know a software?

dick scherrer · Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 3:52 am Post subject:

Hello,

Most organizations do not want their source code scattered all over. Unless your source management provides for check-out to some external environment, doing this is not a good idea. If you try to do this "on your own", you will find it rather inconvenient to continuously transfer a program back and forth to simply avoid an extra compile or 2 on the mainframe.

Far more code changes are due to getting code to work correctly after the first clean compile than getting thru the initial compile successfully.

Having said that, you might search the web for an "open source" cobol compiler that you could download for free.