OpenCobolIDE 2.3.1

A simple cobol IDE

OpenCobolIDE

OpenCobolIDE is a simple and lightweight cobol IDE based on the OpenCobol compiler.

The software is written in Python using PyQt4 and pyQode

Features:

• syntax highlighting

• code completion

• code folding

• navigable tree view of division, sections, paragraphs etc.

• calculates the offsets of selected record definitions

• compile as program (.exe) or as subprogram (.so)

• run the program from the editor

• also open text files

• cross platform: work on GNU/Linux and Windows

License

OpenCobolIDE is released under the GPL version 3

Installation

GNU/Linux

From PPA

There is now a PPA for Ubuntu and derivatives:

$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:open-cobol-ide/stable
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install open-cobol-ide

From pypi

You must have the latest version of pip for python3!

Run the following commands:

sudo apt-get install python3-pyqt4 open-cobol
sudo pip3 install OpenCobolIDE

On Gnu/Linux, you must use pip3 instead of pip

Windows

There is a windows installer available here: https://launchpad.net/cobcide/+download

Requirements

The project depends on the following packages:

• Python3

• setuptools

• PyQt4

• OpenCobol

• pyqode.core

• pyqode.widgets

• pygments >= 1.6

• chardet

• qdarkstyle

Resources

• Downloads

• Source repository

• Issue tracker

• Documentation

Disclaimer

I am by no way a cobol expert, I just had to work on a cobol project at school with an awful IDE (NetExpress on a Windows Xp virtual machine). As I was writing pyqode, I thought it would be nice to use it to make a simple cobol editor for GNU/Linux.

I’ve only learnt COBOL 74 and the IDE has been designed with this standard in mind. I don’t plan to work with cobol at the moment nor to learn a new standard but if you found a missing feature, feel free to open a feature request. I’m always looking forward to make OpenCobolIDE better for the experts.

Your advice will be very appreciated!