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has offered the computer programming language COBOL on many platforms, starting with the

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and IBM 7000 series, continuing into the industry-dominant IBM System/360 and IBM System/370 mainframe systems, and then through IBM Power Systems ( AIX), IBM Z ( z/OS and z/VSE), and x86 (

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). At the height of COBOL usage in the 1960s through 1980s, the IBM COBOL product was the most important of any industry COBOL

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s. In his popular textbook ''A Simplified Guide to Structured COBOL Programming'', Daniel D. McCracken tries to make the treatment general for any machine and compiler, but when he gives details for a particular one, they are to the IBM COBOL compiler and for a System/370. Similarly, another popular textbook of the time, Stern and Stern's ''Structured COBOL Programming'', tries to present an implementation-independent explanation of the language, but the appendix giving the full syntax of the language is explicitly for IBM COBOL, with its extensions to the language highlighted. Use of IBM COBOL was so widespread that Capex Corporation, an independent software vendor, made a post- code generation phase object code optimizer for it. The Capex Optimizer became a quite successful product. Although the IBM COBOL Compiler Family web site only mentions AIX, Linux, and z/OS, IBM still offers COBOL on z/VM and z/VSE.

Products

The current IBM COBOL compiler family consists of the following products: * Enterprise COBOL for z/OSIBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS Product Page
* COBOL for AIXIBM COBOL for AIX Product Page
* COBOL for Linux on x86IBM COBOL for Linux on x86 Product Page
* Automatic Binary Optimizer for z/OS (ABO)IBM Automatic Binary Optimizer for z/OS Product Page
* COBOL for OS/390 & VM * COBOL for VSE/ESA * Development Studio for i

IBM COBOL compiler name, version, release, product numbers, GA and EOS dates

Check th
lifecycle details
(lifecycle dates, announcement letters, and other information) for Enterprise COBOL for z/OS products.

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IBM COBOL compiler name, version, release, product numbers, GA and EOS dates

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