PowerCOBOL V11 is built on the significant design enhancements introduced to the PowerCOBOL V4.0 product. The key architectural development in 4.0 was to make PowerCOBOL applications comply to the Component Object Model (COM). This means that PowerCOBOL programs can be mixed and matched with other COM compliant code.
For those who have used earlier versions of PowerCOBOL here is a review of the development stages:
PowerCOBOL 1.0:GUI development for COBOL
PowerCOBOL 2.0:Increased features over V1
PowerCOBOL 3.0:32 bit product
PowerCOBOL 4.0:COM compliant product.
PowerCOBOL 5.0:Increased features over V4
PowerCOBOL 6.0:Increased features over V5
PowerCOBOL 7.0:Minor enhancements over V6
PowerCOBOL 8.0:Minor enhancements over V7
PowerCOBOL 9.0: Minor enhancements over V8
PowerCOBOL 10.0:Minor enhancements over V9
PowerCOBOL 11.0:Minor enhancements over V10
In order to take advantage of the COM features a number of elements of PowerCOBOL have been changed between versions 3.0 (or earlier) and 4.0 (and later). The following sections describe these changes.
