Introduction

The Keywood Workbench is the product that integrates the various components of the Jackson Workbench suite into a single highly-productive Integrated Development Environment (IDE). It offers the following advantages over the individual components :-

• Project view encapsulating all files relating to a development unit
• Definition of macro libraries for JSP-MACRO expansion
• Definition of copy libraries for JSP-COBOL copy-books
• Optional distributed network installation
• Optional compiler link for automatic compilation of generated code
• Reverse-engineered JSD network from project information
• Additional support for JSP-COBOLl tool emulation
• Ability to open multiple structure / network editors
• A number of "wizards" for automating everyday tasks

• Project Editing
• Structure Editing
• Code Generation
• Configuration Management
• Documentation
• Batch Conversion
• Workbench Options

If you want a brief introduction to the facilities provided by the Keywood Workbench, see the quick tour.

Alternatively a list of commonly asked questions and answers is available here.