Let's start developing COBOL on Mac OS-X

EA_Start_Cobol.md

Install GnuCOBOL

brew install gnu-cobol

Install python and pip3, pyqt5 for OpenCobolIDE/HackEdit dependencies

brew install python3
brew install pyqt5 --with-python3

Install OpenCobolIDE (https://github.com/OpenCobolIDE/OpenCobolIDE) or HackEdit (https://github.com/HackEdit/hackedit)

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//sudo pip3 install OpenCobolIDE --upgrade

pip3 install hackedit --pre --upgrade
pip3 install hackedit-cobol

Run hackedir hackedit

http://cobol2j.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/cobol2j/
http://cobol2j.sourceforge.net/

cobol2j reads COBOL or RPG EBCDIC or ASCII flat data files imported from mainframes, AS/400 or Baby/36 environment. Packed decimal, zoned or packed date fields decoding included. Default conversion tables provided.

https://github.com/miolini/jcopybook

a COBOL CopyBook converter written in Java, OSGI and Maven ready.

https://github.com/devstopfix/cb2java

Dynamic COBOL copybook parser for Java. Supports parsing and writing of application data based on parsed copybooks. Coverts COBOL types to Java types and back to COBOL types with validation. (forked from https://sourceforge.net/projects/cb2java/)

https://github.com/devstopfix/cb2json

This library converts a fixed-width data stream into its JSON equivalent using a Copybook to define both structures.