isCOBOL Evolve 2026 Release 1 is now available.
Veryant is pleased to announce the latest release of isCOBOL™ Evolve, isCOBOL Evolve 2026 R1
The newest isCOBOL Evolve introduces the new NoSQL Bridge, adds new Material Design styles to entry-fields, adds support the Maven build system and more...
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Release highlights
- NoSQL Bridge
- Material design style
- Support for Apache Maven
- Updated C-TreeRTG
- Other features
NoSQL Bridge
The isCOBOL 2026R1 features the new NoSQL Bridge product, a set of stateless REST API functions that provides access to indexed data files through HTTP requests and uses JSON as a data format.
NoSQL Bridge embeds the isCOBOL runtime to access data file, and supports all indexed file formats and requires no backend code.
NoSQL Bridge provides an admin page to configure users and datasets, and provides an import wizard to automatically generate the mappings.
Material design style
The new property MATERIAL-DESIGN allows you to give Entry-fields the Material Design style that is commonly used on web and mobile applications.
New properties allow you to fine-tune the style and text strings to be used for the label and hint that the entry-field will display.
The new style LAF-COLORS has been implemented on window, tool-bar and ribbon controls to simplify the management of colors for applications that wish to follow the default colors set by the Look and Feel.
Support for the Apache Maven build system
Apache Maven is one of the most used build automation and project management tools designed primarily for Java-based projects, though it also supports many other languages and frameworks.
With isCOBOL 2026 R1, the Maven build system can be seamlessly integrated into isCOBOL compilation tasks, enabling developers to adopt Maven for building COBOL applications.
At its core, Maven simplifies the process of building, packaging, and deploying software by providing a standardized project structure and a declarative approach to configuration.
Updated C-TreeRTG
The new 2026 R1 releases provides an updated version 5 C-TreeRTG, that contains improvements and optimizations in areas such as SQL access, GUI tools, and web-based tools.
C-treeRTG can now increase the record length of indexed files and add new keys without needing to migrate the existing records.
Other enhancements
The 2026 R1 release updates several third-party libraries to improve security and modernize applications, such as Apache POI that isCOBOL uses to create Excel-compatible xlsx files.
ALLOCATE and FREE statements, which are part of the ANSI 2023 standard, are now supported to manage dynamic memory allocation.
The isCOBOL 2026 R1 debugger can set breakpoints while the program is running.
isCOBOL 2026 R1 can now generate thread dumps and heap dumps directly from the isCOBOL Server Panel.
Details on these and additional features can be found in the isCOBOL Evolve 2026
Release 1 Overview
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