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	PERCobol whips Cobol into shape for budget-minded enterprises URL: http://www.infoworld.com/articles/mt/xml/00/08/14/000814mtpercobol.html ODP description: James R. Borck for InfoWorld. LEGACYJ'S PERCOBOL 2.5 is a low-cost tool that's best suited for companies with small and midsize conversion projects. If you're looking to reinvigorate portions of your Cobol resources without imposing a high price tag, PERCobol could be the answer. Page title: PERCobol whips Cobol into shape for budget-minded enterprises Page description: LEGACYJ'S PERCOBOL 2.5 is a low-cost tool that's best suited for companies with small and midsize conversion projects. If you're looking to reinvigorate portions of your Cobol resources without imposing a high price tag, PERCobol could be the answer.
	Host-to-Browser Connectivity URL: http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayTC.pl?/980112comp.htm ODP description: InfoWorld product comparison. With browsers available on every major platform, the time may be right to make your host-based COBOL applications more widely accessible. Which product best lets you do this with the least amount of effort, cost, and disruption for users? Page title: Host-to-browser connectivity (InfoWorld)
	COBOL Portal: COBOL Books URL: http://www.cobolportal.com/bookstore/ ODP description: The one-stop shop for COBOL related news, programming tips, resources and everything COBOL. Page title: COBOLPortal
	From Cobol Programmer to E-Commerce Expert URL: http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?/mentor/990913mentors.htm ODP description: Lynda Radosevich for InfoWorld. IT professionals can leverage experience in areas such as COBOL programming into a prominent e-commerce position by extracting lessons from mature technologies while embracing young ones. Page title: News (InfoWorld)
	COBOL Programmers, Face It: Your Favorite Code Is Outdated and Losing Support URL: http://www.itworld.com/AppDev/713/IW010108opborck/ ODP description: James R. Borck for InfoWorld. In the nearly five years I have been writing for InfoWorld, never has an article of mine generated such incredible response. Page title: ITworld.com - Cobol programmers, face it: Your favorite code is outdated and losing support
	IBM COBOL Publications URL: http://www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/cobol/library/ ODP description: COBOL and related publications are available here in various formats including PDF, BookManager, and various zipped file formats. You can view or download publications directly or you can order publications by phone. Page title: IBM - COBOL Family - Library Page description: IBM COBOL provides a complete offering of compatible, cross-platform, cross-product compilers that support z/OS®, OS/390®, VM, VSE/ESA®, AS/400®, AIX®, and Microsoft® Windows NT®. IBM gives you the tools you need to amplify your program development and leverage your existing applications, enabling you to strategically position your application development efforts for today's rapidly changing marketplace.
	COBOL Developer News URL: http://www.netcobol.com/news/ ODP description: A newsletter for the COBOL development community from Fujitsu Software Corporation. The newsletter covers topical issues such as late-breaking COBOL news, new products, hints and tips, and user success stories.
	COBOL Language URL: http://www.opengroup.org/public/pubs/catalog/c192.htm ODP description: This document provides the X/Open definition of the COBOL Language which is that set of COBOL Language facilities that programmers should follow when using COBOL compilers on conformant systems. The X/Open definition is based on the ISO 1989:1985 Programming Languages - COBOL standard but contains none of the optional modules of standard COBOL. Page title: The Open Group: Bookstore & Downloads Page description: The Open Group is an international vendor and technology-neutral consortium that is committed to delivering greater business efficiency by bringing together buyers and suppliers of information technology to lower the time, cost and risk associated with integrating new technology across the enterprise. With its proven certification methodology and conformance testing expertise, The Open Group is the international guarantor of the interoperab...
	Integrating 'Big Iron' Business Apps With Your Web Strategy URL: http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/00/03/13/000313opbiggs.html ODP description: Maggie Biggs for InfoWorld. The growth of Web technologies has created many more options for sites that rely on big iron (and COBOL) as part of their e-business strategy. Those who need to enable Web access to big iron business applications without making major application changes can look to Web-to-host solutions. It is also possible to directly Web-enable big iron. Page title: Multiple options ease the task of integrating 'big iron' business apps with your Web strategy Page description: LET'S FACE IT: "Big iron" business applications are usually large and mission-critical, but also generally the most profitable. Once upon a time, if you wanted to keep your mainframe business applications up to date you had only two choices: to modify or to rewrite.
	Turning COBOL Code Into Gold URL: http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/99/06/14/990614hnwadhwa.html ODP description: Dana Gardner for InfoWorld. Vivek Wadhwa, founder and CEO of Relativity Software, sees gold in the trillions of lines of legacy COBOL code that exist in many older enterprise systems. The gold is not just in the form of profits for his company, but in the ability for companies to reuse that code, and extract an extended return on as many as 20 years of costly investment. Page title: Relativity Software CEO on turning Cobol code into gold
	Cobol for OS/390 Power Programming URL: http://www.mvs-training.com/ ODP description: by David Shelby Kirk at MVS Training site. Page title: MVS TRAINING, Inc. z/OS, Assembler, COBOL, JCL, REXX, ISPF, CICS, DB2, ISPF/JCL Page description: MVS Training provides z/OS OS/390 MVS Training, Assembler, CICS, COBOL, JCL, JES2, REXX, TSO ISPF, z/OS classes, e-Learning and books worldwide
	Standard Object-Oriented Cobol URL: http://www.wiley.com/legacy/compbooks/catalog/12974-7.htm ODP description: Book by Ned Chapin. Covers the new syntax in COBOL-97 and stresses the design that must be done before a COBOL program is written. The text builds on software engineering principles and practices combined with object-oriented technology to enable effective use of this latest form of COBOL.
	Micro Focus Brings COBOL to the Web URL: http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/99/03/t13-03.14.htm ODP description: Michael Vizard and Dana Gardner for InfoWorld. Micro Focus will bring its large installed base of COBOL programmers into the age of the Internet this week with the release of Net Express 3.0, an update to its application development environment that facilitates linking COBOL applications to the Web. Page title: Micro Focus brings Cobol to the Web (InfoWorld)
	Forever COBOL URL: http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/entdev/article.php/611261 ODP description: Lauren Gibbons Paul for Datamation. Companies are using a variety of tools and techniques to maintain and modernize their legacy applications. Page description: Companies are using a variety of tools and techniques to maintain--and modernize--their legacy applications.
	Advanced COBOL for Structured and Object-Oriented Programming URL: http://www.wiley.com/legacy/compbooks/cobol/ ODP description: Book by Gary DeWard Brown offers A pre-millennial update to the classic COBOL resource, focusing on client/server applications and featuring a hands-on tutorial on implementing object-oriented COBOL. Page title: Wiley :: ADVANCED COBOL FOR STRUCTURED AND OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING, THIRD EDITION
	The COBOL Center Bookstore URL: http://www.infogoal.com/cbd/cbdbks.htm ODP description: Learning resources for COBOL and COBOL programming. Page title: COBOL Books - The COBOL Bookstore Page description: COBOL books are described and listed at the COBOL Center website.
	MVS Help URL: http://www.mvshelp.net/ref01.htm ODP description: A resource site for mainframe programmers including manuals and reference guides for COBOL, Assembler, JCL, CICS, TSO, DB2, IMS, IBM Utilities, and ISPF. Page title: Mainframe Cobol Programmer Help Page description: mvs mainframe cobol programmer site, help site for cobol programmers.
	COBOL Gold Mine URL: http://ils-international.com/ ODP description: COBOL is dead, Long Live COBOL! An international site where technical staff and management can discover and learn about the possibilities of the new COBOL/OO COBOL. Free International discussion forum. Page title: Welcome to COBOL Gold Mine At ILS International
	Successful COBOL Upgrades: Highlights and Programming Techniques URL: http://www.wiley.com/legacy/compbooks/catalog/33011-6.htm ODP description: Book by Young Chae and Steven Rogers. Offers a concise primer on how newer versions of COBOL differ from older ones still in circulation, outlines programming techniques for new features, and highlights advantages, obstacles, and surprises programmers may find along the way.
	Mike Murach's Mainframe Books URL: http://www.murach.com/books/mainframe.htm ODP description: Publisher of books on COBOL, DB2, CICS, z/OS JCL, TSO, VSAM, IMS, and VSE/ESA. Sample chapters and code can be downloaded. Page title: Mainframe Books Page description: Best Mainframe books on COBOL, DB2, CICS, MVS JCL, OS/390, z/OS, TSO, VSAM, and IMS.