COBOL Modernization and Migration Technology

COBOL Modernization Solution

Migrate, transform and modernize your mission-critical mainframe and client/server COBOL applications on or off the mainframe. Applications built in COBOL can be transformed wholesale or incrementally to your target programming language and platform of choice using automated modernization technology.

Our COBOL modernization solution guarantees functional equivalence and eliminates end-user retraining. It dramatically reduces risk, cost, and failure inherent in a rewrite while liberating these business-critical systems from their dependency on compiler technology. Rapidly migrate your mainframe COBOL applications to Object-Oriented languages such as C# or Java, or to another COBOL compiler technology. If a facelift is all you need, our COBOL modernization solution can modernize the application UI without screen scraping and while preserving your business logic and existing back-end architecture. Our solution is designed to cause minimal disruption, requiring no code freezes, code rewrites, or halts in development.

Agile & Iterative — Modernize COBOL via microservices extraction capabilities and using DevOps principles.
Preserve IT Investment — New code is 100% functionally equivalent to the original COBOL application.
Reduce Technical Debt & Total Cost of Ownership — Deprecate functionality that no longer matters, and therefore, should not be modernized.
No Code Freezes — Continuous development of the COBOL legacy application while modernization is taking place.

COBOL Modernization Tools

Our Modernization Lifecycle Platform (MLP) integrates best-of-breed COBOL migration tools from our 3^rd-party solution providers with our 3270-facelift transformation technology and manages the entire lifecycle of a modernization project – from analysis and migration to testing and production release.

COBOL Migration Tools to Java/C#

Automated conversion of COBOL source code produces high quality maintainable Java or C# code that is guaranteed to be 100% functionally equivalent to the original. The migrated application relies on native industry standard technologies and the migration outcome is highly predictable in terms of time, cost and risk as all project aspects are automated: code, data and testing. Functional equivalence extends into online and batch/JCL, as well as code originally running under CICS or IMS. VSAM file-based data access is also converted through compatibility libraries that provide functional and performance equivalence using RDBMS on target platform.

Facelift Transformation for COBOL to Modern UIs

Rapidly transform your green-screen, COBOL applications to native and modern web platforms with NO screen scraping. This highly automated and highly customizable facelift solution is fast, cost-effective, guarantees functional equivalence, and minimizes end-user retraining. Choose an incremental, piece-meal, staged UI modernization to modern web platforms and architecture. Learn More ->