IBM VisualAge Pacbase is a

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that is developed and maintained by IBM.

VisualAge VisualAge is a family of computer integrated development environments from IBM, which supports multiple programming languages. VisualAge was first released in October 1993 and was discontinued April 30, 2007 and its web page removed in September ...

Pacbase runs on both IBM and non-IBM

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and integrates with IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer. When compiling Pacbase code it is first translated into

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and then compiled to binary. PACBASE was an early advanced CASE software for mainframes and Unix systems from CGI (Compagnie Générale d'Informatique, a French software house) that supported a wide variety of databases, including DB2 and Oracle. PACBASE generated COBOL code for the servers, and Visual Age for PACBASE was used to create the client side. IBM purchased CGI in the early 1990s and absorbed the code-generating tools into its other offerings. Pacbase is now considered a

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; its main remaining use is in

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markets. IBM supported Pacbase through 2015. More details on the French page of VisualAge Pacbase.

References

External links

IBM VisualAge Pacbase Overview

PCMAG Definition of PACBASE

European Users Club of VisualAge Pacbase

* ttp://www-01.ibm.com/software/rational/products/programming/systemz/ RPPz : replacement solution for VisualAge Pacbase from IBM
Raincode Labs PACBASE Migration: an automated service to convert PACBASE systems to maintainable native COBOL

PTF - Program Transformation Factory: Euraxiel (founded by CGI Systems experts) and HP have partnered to offer an end-to-end fully automated PACBASE to maintainable native COBOL transformation service
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