Rocket® Visual COBOL® Personal Edition 

(formerly a Micro Focus® product)

Build new skills in modern COBOL development.


 

Learn COBOL

Rocket® Visual COBOL® Personal Edition (formally a Micro Focus® product) helps you build and modernize COBOL applications using the most popular integrated development environments (IDEs)–Visual Studio® or Eclipse®. Tune your skills with the next generation in COBOL development–Visual COBOL.

visual cobol personal edition

Visual Studio

Learn COBOL using Microsoft® Visual Studio®.

Get advanced COBOL editing and debugging, as well as continuous background compilation, auto complete, code analysis and code search—all integrated within Microsoft Visual Studio.

Build, debug, compile and test COBOL programs using the latest Microsoft IDE.

Combine COBOL, C#, and other .NET languages within one integrated COBOL development toolset.

Eclipse

Learn COBOL using the Eclipse IDE.

Streamline application delivery with advanced editing and debugging. It features continuous background compilation, code analysis, code search, and remote debugging.

Build, debug, compile and test COBOL programs using the latest Eclipse IDE.

Combine COBOL, Java® and other JVM-based languages within one integrated development toolset.

Build skills

Build new COBOL skills.

Whether you are new to COBOL or a veteran, our free, one-year, student developer license will help you build new skills for a rewarding career.

Build skills in COBOL without the need to buy a license.

Learn skills to maintain and modernize COBOL applications.

Are you part of a university?

COBOL is the original—and most enduring—business-first language. Rocket Software COBOL courses, programs, and free software support educators, students, and employers.

COBOL Academic Program

Latest COBOL Research Results

70%

of core business transacation processing runs on COBOL.

800B

Lines of COBOL in use today.

92%

Of leaders say COBOL apps are strategic.