ICOBOL Revision 4.54 Has Arrived!

In this latest release of ICOBOL 4 we have made significant performance improvements in the windows version of the thinclient client and server (icrunrc and icrunrs); we added several enhancements to improve our interoperability with SQL databases; we have added MAC address license protection on the Apple Mac OS X and IBM AIX platforms, and we have added special thin-client install packages for the non-Windows downloads.

As always, the latest revision also builds on previous releases with feature enhancements, bug fixes, and up to date third party components. One of those great feature enhancements made recently to ICOBOL 4 is the ability to write any of your sequential report files in .pdf format and even merge the report text with custom background forms. Another significant enhancement was the addition of the Apple Mac OS X platform over a year ago. Click here to check out all the details.

Note that if you are coming from ICOBOL 2 or 3, ICOBOL 4 requires a new license. We have worked to make the upgrade from ICOBOL 3 to ICOBOL 4 as simple as possible. For most customers it will be as simple as upgrading from one minor version to the next. ICOBOL 4 also provides a solution for those ICOBOL 2 customers who were "stuck" at that revision because parts of their application were not available to be recompiled for ICOBOL 3. The ICOBOL 4 runtime has the ability to run in ICOBOL 2 compatibility mode. This has the advantage that many of enhancements we've added over the past 10+ years now become available to your ICOBOL 2 applications, including such popular features as printing to .pdf and the thin-client runtime. Please visit our pricing page for current prices.

Are You Running on Borrowed Time?

Perhaps you recognize names like Eclipse MV/8000® and AViiON® because you're still running that old Data General system with Interactive COBOL. If so, you're running on borrowed time - a major system failure is looming closer and closer.  Can you afford to be down for days or weeks while you scour the country for replacement parts?  Have you checked your backups lately to make sure you can recover from a crashed disk drive? Even if you are lucky, and your system stays up for another year, it is another year of lost productivity as you run on a a machine that is hundreds of times slower than today's processors. Why not make the move to one of our open systems platforms today?

Give us a call and ask about our migration services. We can help.

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Create completely portable business applications that will run efficiently on today's most popular computing platforms. We're so convinced you'll like this newfound freedom that we offer a 30-day money-back guarantee.

The World Wide Web ... your application needs to be there!

Why not develop and maintain your dynamic web application in the language you know best? COBOL! 

Click here to see cgiCOBOL in action - it may be just the answer you're looking for! And if you can't or don't want to do it yourself, we may be able to help with our Internet services.

Leverage the data behind your COBOL applications in powerful ways!

If you need to access your data:

• from a Windows program, such as Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, or Crystal Reports
• over an intranet or the internet
• or even from an application written in C

we have the tools to make it happen. Check out our ODBC Driver, Client/Server File Access, Client/Server SQL access, and User Library products.