User:Cobollero/isCOBOL

isCOBOL is a dialect of Programming language COBOL. According to the vendor, there are more than 2,000,000 users of isCOBOL software worldwide.

History
Veryant was founded in the USA in 2005. At the moment, the company has branches in the countries, such as Australia, Brasil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Norway, Portugal, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan and Uruguay.

The vendor is constantly developing the software. isCOBOL lets the support for Dockers Cloud containers, desktop applications and Web services. In 2013, Veryant has introduced the first COBOL solution for mobile.

Unique features comparing other COBOL dialects
isCOBOL was developed to make COBOL platform-independent. isCOBOL compiler is written 100% in Java that generates object-orientated code which efficiently runs on any platform that supports a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version 1.4.2 or greater.

Editors
The isCOBOL dialect can actually be edited in any text editor. The compilation can be done manually via the command-line interface. Veryant has its own isCOBOL IDE based on Eclipse.

isCOBOL-Compiler
isCOBOL is compliant with ANSI standards, supporting modern and legacy COBOL dialects. Object-orientated features includes native support for Unicode and JavaBean graphical controls. The compiler provides flexible access to Indexed file systems and RDBMS sources, as well as simultaneous access to both sources from a single program. isCOBOL automatically translates ESQL to JDBC; no ESQL pre-compiler required.