You don't have to miss them. You can do all that using Visual COBOL, a full-fledged member of Visual Studio 2010 and 2012. (Also available for Eclipse.) Go to the Micro Focus web site and follow the link for a free trial version. For a slightly less COBOL-hostile crowd, visit/join the Microfocus Community. You will find out that we do a bit more than COBOL.

Tom Morrison Micro Focus