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

• New Features in Pro*COBOL Release 21c

• Features in Pro*COBOL 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)