SuperBOL is the first French contributor to the free GnuCOBOL compiler
Our mission is to give a second life to COBOL infrastructures
SuperBOL develops and commercialises sovereign solutions based on the GnuCOBOL open source compiler to facilitate the migration of strategic infrastructures.
Our aim is to put SuperBOL at the heart of an ecosystem by building strategic partnerships with interested parties
(public administrations, software and IT services companies…)
SuperBOL is the first French contributor to the free GnuCOBOL compiler
SuperBOL offers a range of solutions to the challenges that organisations face when striding towards the evolution of their COBOL systems.
GnuCOBOL is an open source compiler released in 2002 under the name of OpenCOBOL. It was accepted as a GNU project between 2013 and 2015.
GnuCOBOL is the most compliant COBOL compiler with evolutions of ISO standards**
SuperBOL Studio is a coding environment for COBOL on VSCode which currently features:
✓ a language server protocol (LSP) analysing COBOL code and answering developers’ requests (indentation, syntax highlighting, code navigation, error diagnostics etc).
✓ a visualisation of code coverage analysed by GnuCOBOL, allowing a clear distinction of the portions of COBOL code which are effectively executed.
Developed with the OCaml functional programming language.
Powered by academic research, it is known for its reliability and
performance.
You are a COBOL developer
We develop modern tools for COBOL developers:
You have specific needs? Let’s talk about it.
You manage COBOL infrastructures or work on the migration of legacy systems
We assist companies in the modernisation and the migration of COBOL infrastructures.
Strong of our experience with assisting a French public administration (DGFiP) for the exit from Bull’s obsolete GCOS mainframes with GnuCOBOL (on PC), SuperBOL develops solutions tailored to your infrastructures.
Those solutions can be integrated to the middleware of IT services companies working on migrations.
You want to assert the feasability of such a project? Let’s talk about it.
We fix bugs you encounter with the GnuCOBOL compiler:
Since January 2022, SuperBOL actively contributes to the developement of GnuCOBOL and assists its clients in the context of a migration with GnuCOBOL.
For a migration with GnuCOBOL, SuperBOL offers:
Some of our contributions for a migration with GnuCOBOL:
We invite you to share your requests with us in order to allow our tools (such as the SuperBOL Studio) to evolve gracefully with your needs. In particular, we are able to add new features or to extend the support for our tools (handling of COBOL dialects, missing COBOL keywords or preprocessing).
"We are happy to be able to contribute to the handling of the GCOS dialect in GnuCOBOL. This dialects is widely used within our department, which has developed a large code base on GCOS COBOL. Now that the time has come to decommission GCOS systems, COBOL on Linux is our chosen target, and the GnuCOBOL compiler is its cornerstone. We extend our sincere gratitude to the OCamlPro teams [...] for their support."
Olivier Blanc (DGFiP) - Published on LinkedIn
SuperBOL relies on a software company with more than 10 years of experience
SuperBOL is a team of the software company OCamlPro specialised in R&D on programming languages. This software company was created in 2011 by Fabrice Le Fessant, formerly “polytechnicien” researcher at Inria. True to its academic origin, OCamlPro’s engineers are in majority holders of PhDs in Computer Science.