RM/COBOL Development System 8.1

RM/COBOL Development System is a mature COBOL toolchain for building, maintaining, and deploying business-critical applications. Designed with stability and long-term compatibility in mind, it helps organizations preserve and extend existing COBOL investments while enabling cross-platform deployment on common desktop and server operating systems. The system typically includes an optimizing compiler, a consistent runtime environment, and utilities that simplify debugging, file management, and application packaging.

Key capabilities:

• High compatibility with established COBOL dialects and common ANSI/ISO COBOL standards
• Cross-platform runtime for predictable behavior across environments
• Source-level debugging and diagnostic tools for faster issue resolution
• Support for batch processing and character-based user interfaces
• Indexed and sequential file handling utilities for business data processing
• Interoperability hooks for calling external routines and system APIs
• Migration and modernization support to bring legacy code forward with minimal changes
• Administrative tools to streamline deployment and lifecycle management

Ideal for:

• Organizations maintaining or enhancing existing COBOL systems
• Independent software vendors with long-lived COBOL applications
• Teams prioritizing reliability, portability, and low-risk modernization

Benefits:

• Preserves proven business logic while extending system life
• Reduces migration risk through strong backward compatibility
• Provides a stable, low-overhead runtime for mission-critical workloads

RM/COBOL Development System is developed by Liant Software Corporation. The most popular versions of this product among our users are: 7.5 and 8.1. The names of program executable files are rmcobol.exe, runcobol.exe.

You can check Meteor by Meteor Development Group, Cobol DataViewer, Callback File System and other related programs like Prithvi Development Studio at the "download" section.