Changes in Pro*COBOL

This section lists out the changes in Oracle Pro*COBOL starting from Release 19c.

New Features in Pro*COBOL Release 23ai

The following feature is new in this release:

  • Support for boolean data type

    The Pro*COBOL Precompiler now supports the querying and binding of the SQL BOOLEAN data type. Using the boolean data type makes it easier to represent a boolean state in applications with a true or false value instead of using a character column (with Y or N).

New Features in Pro*COBOL Release 21c

Micro Focus Visual COBOL v6.0 compiler supports the following platforms:

  • Linux x86 (32-bit and 64-bit) on OL8 & SLES15
  • Windows x86 (32-bit and 64-bit)
  • HPUX on Itanium (32-bit and 64-bit)

Features in Pro*COBOL Release 19c

Micro Focus Visual COBOL v6.0 compiler supports the following platforms:

  • Linux x86 (32-bit and 64-bit) on OL8 & SLES15
  • Windows x86 (32-bit and 64-bit)
  • HPUX on Itanium (32-bit and 64-bit)
  • Solaris SPARC (32-bit and 64-bit)
  • IBM AIX (32-bit and 64-bit)
  • Linux for IBM System z (31-bit and 64-bit)