COBOL 101

Documenting my journey learning COBOL 💾

Requirements

• VSCode
• Docker

Setup

• Place the devcontainer.json file under .devcontainer/devcontainer.json in your project
• In the command palette in VSCode, launch the Dev Containers: Reopen in Container command

After running this command, VS Code will restart and the container is functional.

Run cobol programs in this container

Compile and run COBOL programs :

cobc -x hello.cbl && ./hello

Compile, save the executable to /bin and run:

cobc -x -o bin/hello && ./hello.cbl

References

VS Code Dev Containers Guide: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/devcontainers/create-dev-container