The CISCO application development system is designed to be a comprehensive tool to ease creation of applications programs and to increase productivity when working with COBOL, IMAGE and VPLUS/3000.   Our main objective was to provide a high-level interface to file systems, databases, complex desktop/terminal I/O and application programs.

Major features of the CISCO application development system:

• Standardize the creation of an application
• Provide a skeletal model for program development
• Standardize Desktop/Terminal I/O
• Standardize File and Database handling
• Provide a toolbox of usable routines for the programmer
• Enable easy debugging of programs created with Cisco
• Provide an easy method of creating help screens
• Consistant method of error handling