Observed arrival · 2026-10-06
cobolwork + ironwork: analysis and compiler work for COBOL
The site presents two related open-source projects: a security and build-gate analyzer for COBOL, JCL, and CICS, and a Rust compiler targeting IBM Enterprise COBOL.
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- Teams maintaining COBOL, JCL, and CICS systems
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- A sample finding traces a command-line argument through four hops to a SYSTEM call; the compiler's load modules still wait on the VM to run.
Field notes
The analyzer describes copybook resolution and option handling across installation defaults, PARM, and CBL cards, and can act as a build gate for blocking findings or a missing SSRANGE. ironwork's interpreter covers batch and CICS examples, including EBCDIC working storage and packed or zoned decimal behavior. The page says load modules can be written but their execution still waits on the VM.
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