Micro Focus has released a new development environment option for its platform, Server Express Remote Development Option. Customers can debug develop, and test COBOL applications using the new environment.  

“Micro Focus Server Express Remote Development Option is the first COBOL development tool to enable developers to create and maintain applications on a remote server while sitting on a local machine,” said Peter Anderton, Product Solutions Director, Application Development at Micro Focus. “Development projects that once took several days to complete can now be finished in mere hours, with customers seeing tenfold productivity gains in the development process. This allows customers to greatly reduce costs and enables IT staffs to redeploy personnel for more strategic initiatives. At the same time, RDO brings customers one step closer to developing applications remotely for deployment directly on the cloud.”

Micro Focus Server Express RDO a workstation-based IDE with support for the entire edit-compile-debug cycle on Linux or UNIX servers. It features standard Eclipse functionality so Eclipse developers can immediately take advantage of the solution while enabling non-COBOL developers to quickly develop and modernize existing COBOL assets on UNIX or Linux servers.