GnuCOBOL

GnuCOBOL

Mature Open Source Project

• Initially TinyCOBOL (1999)
• “Tiny” was extended as OpenCOBOL (2002)
• OpenCOBOL joined the Gnu Project as GnuCOBOL (2015)

Enhanced Source Code Portability

• Accepts many Proprietary COBOL dialects
  • IBM
  • MicroFocus
  • Fujitsu, ACU-COBOL, …

Excellent Language Coverage

• Core Language, Report Writer, SCREEN
• SQL, Indexed, XML, JSON

Built on GCC

• GnuCOBOL compiles to C language
• GCC C language compiler produces binaries
• Highly portable