Synkronix, Inc. Announces PERCobol Version 2.1 Availability; COBOL Compiler for the Java Execution Environment.PLEASANTON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 8, 1999--Synkronix, Inc. of Pleasanton, announced today availability of PERCobol(TM) Enterprise Version 2.1, the COBOL COBOL: see programming language. COBOL in full Common Business-Oriented Language. High-level computer programming language, one of the first widely used languages and for many years the most popular language in the business community. compiler bringing together the capabilities of COBOL and Java. Synkronix, Inc. is a software developer dedicated to the evolution of legacy applications software, delivering COBOL business solutions. Synkronix PERCobol, an ANSI (American National Standards Institute, New York, www.ansi.org) A membership organization founded in 1918 that coordinates the development of U.S. voluntary national standards in both the private and public sectors. It is the U.S. member body to ISO and IEC. standard compliant COBOL compiler, enables COBOL applications to be deployed on any platform supporting Java. PERCobol(TM) Version 2.1 adds new compatibility features. Wang COBOL joins a list of other popular COBOL language extensions (IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , HP, X/Open) supported by PERCobol. Now Wang COBOL applications can be recompiled using a Year 2000 compliant a. 1. (Computers) having dates fully and properly represented, and not susceptible to failure due to the year 2000 bug. compiler and enable remediation of the millennium problem on other hardware platforms. PERCobol adds dynamic internationalization The support for monetary values, time and date for countries around the world. It also embraces the use of native characters and symbols in the different alphabets. See localization, i18n, Unicode and IDN. internationalization - internationalisation with the ability to adapt a COBOL single source program and dynamically at runtime set to the desired nationalization nationalization, acquisition and operation by a country of business enterprises formerly owned and operated by private individuals or corporations. State or local authorities have traditionally taken private property for such public purposes as the construction of characteristics such as currency punctuation, alphabetic changes and collating sequences. Dynamic internationalization is an important feature asset in creating Euro compatible COBOL applications. PERCobol extends remote file access through NFS (Network File System) The file sharing protocol in a Unix network. This de facto Unix standard, which is widely known as a "distributed file system," was developed by Sun. See file sharing protocol and WebNFS. NFS - Network File System and WebNFS file serving technology. NFS capability in PERCobol allows access to information on any platform where an NFS server exists. The COBOL application program compiled with Synkronix PERCobol compiler and executed with PERCobol runtime libraries can access remote files as if these files were local. NFS capability enables enterprise data access. Additional Version 2.1 compatibility features include execution performance, dynamic memory and split-key support. PERCobol split-key support enables the user to use alternate keys to easily access information stored in an indexed file. PERCobol execution performance has been enhanced to compare favorably with other COBOL compilers. Synkronix performance benchmarks have demonstrated an over 500 time improvement from baseline measurements taken with PERCobol Version 2.0. PERCobol performance enhancements coupled with improvements in Java execution deliver an attractive alternative to natively compiled COBOL. PERCobol adds new features that enable COBOL programmers through the capabilities of Java to create COBOL Beans and COBOL Servlets. The PERCobol compiler will generate Java Beans that encapsulate COBOL business logic. This powerful new function allows COBOL applications to be mined to create self-defining beans or objects. "COBOL Beans" created by PERCobol can then be incorporated in other PERCobol applications or into Java applications as Java Beans. Synkronix has extended COBOL syntax in PERCobol to support building servlets. COBOL can be used to create high-performance servlets removing the need to create separate CGI scripts. Now servlets can be created or use existing COBOL business logic to deliver powerful server functions. "I am pleased with the functionality we are delivering to business and believe PERCobol is an extremely valuable tool for those with COBOL applications. Business can retain its current investment in COBOL to take advantage of the functionality of Java," said Charles Townsend, President of Synkronix. Roger Lilavois of the Software Factory (a division of Roger Lilavois, Inc.), remarks, "PERCobol provides an intuitively obvious language without having to fully understand the intricacies of Java. I will now be able to port my applications to AS/400, AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. and other Unix platforms and add the GUI as needed." PERCobol Enterprise Version is available through Synkronix and licensed Synkronix distributors for HP-MPE/iX, HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. , IBM OS/390, IBM OS/400, IBM OS/2, IBM AIX, Linux, SCO Unix Ware, Sun Solaris SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill , Sun Solaris X/86, MPE, Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 and Microsoft Windows 95/98. Synkronix, Inc. is a privately held corporation Noun 1. privately held corporation - a corporation owned by a few people; shares have no public market close corporation, closed corporation, private corporation founded in late 1995 and incorporated in 1996 with company headquarters in Pleasanton. Synkronix products leverage existing business application assets and create a bridge to the future. The company brings together the capabilities of COBOL and Java, and provides new software tools designed to create cost effective software business solutions. Note to Editors: All trademarks are the properties of their respective owners or licensers. |
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