See if the compiler for the z390 emulation project will work with Cobol Check
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Low-priority experiment - try the zcobol compiler in the z390 Portable Assembler and Emulator project will work properly with Cobol Check. If so, it would provide another option for Cobol Check users, and it might offer advantages in some cases.
FYI: This refers to the project at: http://z390.info
The Z390 Portable Assembler and Emulator is an interesting project because it may provide a way to test off-platform that mimics actual Z system object code. For now, the zCOBOL compiler does not support enough basic Cobol verbs to be useful. Most real programs would not compile.
In addition, the Windows version seems to work sort of okay, but is not really user-friendly or easily configurable to fit into the directory structure of a user's project. The perl scripts for running on Linux are basically functional, but you lose functionality that you normally have on the command line, such as command line history. Actual shell scripts would be more usable than the perl scripts. I was unable to figure out how to set environment variables in a way that the z390 program could find any macro directories, except by running the supplied perl scripts inside the z390 directory, with the target programs copied somewhere under that directory tree.
Conclusion: This is promising and worth following, but not suitable for our purposes at the present time.