MATT DEAN

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Prior to the year 2000 Mr. Matt Dean founded a company that created a programming language (CobolScript®), and reverse engineering tools that helped thousands of companies around the world mitigate the impact of Y2K.  This page is the official source for information regarding this product.
 
 Product details
CobolScript® is a COBOL based scripting language. Anyone who already knows COBOL can easily use CobolScript to build scripts with virtually no learning curve. CobolScript has familar COBOL syntax and is ideal for data conversion, batch interfaces, and server-side scripting.  It is also easy for users of other scripting languages to learn as well.  See current Release Notes for updates.

COBOLSCRIPT is an easy to use command line executable program with a very small foot-print (< 650k).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CommandsFunctions
ACCEPT ABS
ACCEPTFROMSOCKET ACOS
ADD ACOSH
BANNER ALPHABETIC
BINDSOCKET ANNUITY
CALENDAR ANNUITYFV
CALL ASIN
CLOSE ASINH
CLOSEDB ATAN
CLOSESOCKET ATAN2
COMPUTE ATANH
CONNECTTOSOCKET CALTOJ
CONTINUE CCTOCIN
COPY CEILING
CREATESOCKET CHOOSE
DISPLAY CINTOCC
DISPLAYASCIIFILE CMTOIN
DISPLAYFILE COS
DISPLAYLF COSH
DIVIDE CTOFAHR
EXEC SQL DDBAMT
EXECUTE EXP
FD FACT
FTPASCII FAHRTOC
FTPBINARY FLOOR
FTPCD FTOM
FTPCLOSE FV
FTPCONNECT FVANNUITY
FTPGET GALTOL
FTPPUT GMTOOZ
GETBANNER HPTOKW
GETCALENDAR INTOCM
GETENV JTOCAL
GETHOSTBYNAME KGTOPD
GETHOSTNAME KMTOML
GETMAIL KWTOHP
GETMAILCOUNT LN
GETTIMEFROMSERVER LOG
GETWEBPAGE LTOGAL
GOBACK MLTOKM
IF MTOF
INCLUDE NUMERIC
INITIALIZE NUMPMTS
LISTENTOSOCKET OZTOGM
MOVE PDTOKG
MULTIPLY PERMUTAT
OPEN PI
OPENDB PV
PERFORM PVANNUITY
PERFORM...VARYING RANDOM
POSITION ROOT
READ ROUNDED
RECEIVESOCKET SIGN
REWRITE SIN
SENDMAIL SINH
SENDSOCKET SQRT
SET STRLINEAMT
SHUTDOWNSOCKET SYDAMT
SUBTRACT TAN
STOP RUN TANH
WRITE

 

 

 

 

 

A list of a few companies that have used CobolScript include:

 

American Electric Power
Amway Corporation
Asplundh
Bechtel Corp.
Caribbean Transportation
Cisco Systems
City of Knoxville
Cooper Tire
Dell
Fort Wayne Newspapers
GMAC
Gulf South Medical Supply
Harvard Medical School
IBM
Intel
Lakeshore Group, Ltd
Northern Trust Bank
Old Dominion Data Systems
Pacific Service Credit Union
Perez Abreu Company
Purdue University
Simon & Wiesel
State Library of Queensland
Sun Yet-Sen Cancer Center
Sweetheart Cup Company
Thurau & Co. GMBH
US Postal Service
Washington Mills
Waukesha State Bank
Westpeak Investment

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 CobolScript is cross-platform compatible, with versions for the following operating systems:
FreeBSD®MS Windows®Linux®

 

Want more information? The best way to find answers to all of your questions about CobolScript is to take a look at the Developers Guide and then download a demo version. This 279 page manual is one of the most well written programming manuals you will find. Seriously, it is a good manual.

 
 
Click on the button below to purchase and download your CobolScript Suite today! $49.95 USD
 

 

 


Additional CobolScript Features
In addition to the standard language commands and the internet processing commands available in CobolScript, other features provide the means to quickly and easily create programs with a wide range of functionality:

  • Internetworking commands such as FTPPUT, FTPGET, SENDMAIL, and GETMAIL for transferring files and emails from within a CobolScript program.
  • File processing commands for reading and parsing both fixed-format and delimited data files.
  • Flexible naming syntax that allows underscores ( _ ) and dashes ( - ) to be used interchangeably in variable names, to support both modern variable naming as well as COBOL-style variable naming.
  • Advanced expression evaluator that does not require explicit spaces between expression components, even for subtraction operations, for programmers who are used to coding mathematical expressions in C or similar languages.
  • Financial functions for calculating annuities and depreciation.
  • Scientific, stochastic, and other higher math functions.
  • Metric to English and English to metric system unit conversion functions.
  • TCP/IP socket programming commands such as SENDSOCKET and RECEIVESOCKET, for creating client-server communications programs without web server software or FTP configuration.
  • DNS commands such as GETHOSTNAME for incorporating internet information retrieval into programs.
  • PIC X(n) picture clause that automatically calculates variable size based on VALUE clause, eliminating the need for time-consuming computations with FILLER variables, and an implied version of PIC X(n) that allows the FILLER keyword and picture clause to be eliminated entirely.
  • REPLICA variable declaration syntax that permits the same elementary data item to be used in multiple group items.
  • EXECUTE command for dynamic statement creation and execution.
  • Intelligent error messaging that displays browser-based error messages when running programs from a browser, and text-based error messages when running programs from the command line, thereby speeding the debugging process. Using these CobolScript features, you can develop programs to get and save web pages to text files, transfer files via FTP, send simple emails, retrieve emails, accept data from web page forms, create virtual HTML documents, and perform various file input and output operations.

 

Getting our Products

 

 

You can purchase the entire CobolScript Suite for $49.95! It includes the following:

  • CobolScript for Microsoft Windows
  • CobolScript for Linux

  • Want to port it to z/OS under Linux, AIX, etc? Want to make a custom build? Let us know and we will send you source.


    Click on the button below to purchase and download your CobolScript Suite today!  $49.95 USD