List of COBOL software and tools

This is a list of software and programming tools for the COBOL programming language, which includes compilers, IDEs, build tools, testing, frameworks, and related projects.

Fujitsu NetCOBOL — COBOL compiler for Windows, Linux, and mainframes^[1]^[2]
GnuCOBOL — open-source COBOL compiler translating COBOL to C and then compiling with GCC^[3]
IBM COBOL — mainframe COBOL compiler for IBM z/OS and IBM i platforms^[4]
Micro Focus COBOL — commercial COBOL compiler and runtime for enterprise systems^[5]
FairCom RTG – A commercial real-time database and runtime solution developed by FairCom Corporation. It provides integration with COBOL applications for transaction processing and modernization projects, and is used in enterprise environments requiring high-performance data management. ^[6]

Integrated development environments

Eclipse IDE — with COBOL plugin support, Micro Focus or Bitlang extensions.^[7]
IBM Developer for z/OS — IDE for COBOL and PL/I mainframe development^[8]
Micro Focus Visual COBOL — IDE integration for Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, and Eclipse^[9]
OpenCOBOLIDE — open-source lightweight IDE for GnuCOBOL^[10]
Visual Studio Code — with COBOL extensions via Bitlang COBOL and GnuCOBOL Language Server^[11]

ACUCOBOL-GT — runtime and API library suite from Micro Focus^[12]
CICS — IBM middleware for transaction processing in COBOL applications^[13]
DB2 and IMS APIs — database access libraries commonly used with COBOL applications^[14]

COBOL Check — open-source unit testing framework for COBOL^[19]
IBM Rational Performance Tester — automated performance testing of web and server-based applications from the Rational Software division of IBM^[20]
Micro Focus Unit Testing Framework — integrated COBOL unit testing tool^[21]