COBOL WorkBench 2000: the new BS2000 workstation for COBOL developers is a
PC

August 9, 1995 -- Paderborn/Newbury. In future, COBOL developers can carry
out all their development and maintenance work on BS2000 applications at a
PC. This is made possible by the new COBOL WorkBench 2000, a PC-based
developer's workstation, which has been created and will be jointly
marketed by Micro Focus Ltd., Newbury, England and Siemens Nixdorf
Informationssysteme AG, Paderborn. With the COBOL WorkBench 2000, the
entire development cycle from analysis through programming to maintenance
of BS2000 or client-server applications can be carried out on a Windows PC
or notebook. This means that standard PC tools on the marketplace will
also be available to COBOL developers.

Applications, including their BS2000 interfaces to a transaction monitor or
database, for instance, will be developed and tested offline. Only the
final test phase still needs to run on the mainframe. With full-featured
emulations, the COBOL WorkBench 2000 offers the developer a miniature
BS2000 environment on a Windows PC, thereby ensuring independence from the
direct mainframe link during the actual development work. Since more than
90% of BS2000 applications are written in COBOL, this expansion of a
collaboration spanning more than ten years is a crucial step, also towards
client-server architectures.
 
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