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Rocket® COBOL-IT (formerly part of Micro Focus)

Engineered for enhancing performance, productivity and connectivity as well as embracing open source solutions. 

 

Rocket® COBOL-IT (formerly part of Micro Focus) provides innovative and scalable solutions to enable enterprises to modernize their legacy COBOL applications. Founded in 2008, this combination of products, processes and partners enables companies to support evolving needs and embrace continuous modernization. A leader in the global COBOL community, COBOL-IT technology has migrated hundreds of customers, hundreds of thousands of users and hundreds of millions of lines of COBOL code.

 

COBOL-IT supports the wider COBOL community with a comprehensive offering, including a robust and compact product suite, a high-quality, professional compiler, and a proven migration process – all created to preserve the functionality of strategic COBOL applications. Endorsed by the globe’s most experienced migration partners, COBOL-IT has a strong track record in migrating mission-critical COBOL applications to open systems, and the Cloud. COBOL-IT customers modernize legacy COBOL applications, and utilize best-of-breed open source solutions, cloud computing, big data and cognitive technology to maximize the benefits of DevOps practices.

 

Partnership agreements between COBOL-IT and leading platform vendors, legacy modernization specialists, and software solutions in open systems ensure that moving to COBOL-IT can be accomplished rapidly, at low-risk, everywhere in the world.

 

COBOL-IT’s Process is designed to provide you with a roadmap of your move to COBOL-IT. You will understand what needs to be done, and how much you’ll spend and save.

 

  1. Application Assessment Survey: Describe your application using COBOL-IT’s Application Assessment Form. This allows COBOL-IT to identify complicating factors early, and ensure that all of the solutions you require are provided.
  2. Application Analysis: COBOL-IT will conduct an analysis of your entire application outline technical challenges and correlate recommended solutions with costs for your migration to COBOL-IT. Now, the ball is in your court!
  3. Clean Compile: COBOL-IT will work with your technical team on accommodating proprietary behaviors, and will produce a clean compile of your application using the COBOL-IT Compiler Suite. Now, you’re ready to begin your testing!
  4. Technical Services: Need support with modifications, testing, and migration of procedures? Check out our service packages below.

 

Services

  • Silver: Basic Support Services
    • Product Updates
    • COBOL-IT 3rd-party Certification Program
    • Private Online Portal
    • Technical Support- Web
  • Gold: Enterprise-class support for software development 
    • All Silver Features
    • Technical Support- Phone
    • Consultative support from COBOL-IT specialists
  • Platinum Enterprise-class support for production
    • All Gold Features
    • Rapid response 24 x 7
    • Emergency hot fixes & patch distribution
    • Extended End-of-Life support

 

Rocket® COBOL-IT Compiler Suite Enterprise Edition (formerly a Micro Focus® product)

 

The Rocket® COBOL-IT Compiler Suite Enterprise Edition (formerly a Micro Focus® product) provides high-performance and a very high level of compatibility with Micro Focus and IBM® COBOL compilers, ensuring a rapid transition with minimal cost and minimal risk. Our goal is to provide you with a transition transparent to your users, with equal or better performance and interoperability with all of the elements in your Enterprise Solution Stack!

An Enterprise COBOL Compiler Suite that is highly adapted to the needs of Enterprises with Mission Critical COBOL components in their Enterprise Solution Stack.

  • Enables you to compile existing Enterprise COBOL programs and run the compiled objects in all Open Systems Unix®, Linux®, and Windows® platforms.
  • Provides interoperability with all of the core elements of your Enterprise Solution Stack, including databases, transactional monitors, data manipulation tools, indexed file systems and third-party tools.
  • Provides high compatibility with your existing COBOL Compiler, ensuring a rapid transition with minimal cost and minimal risk.

 

The COBOL-IT Compiler Suite

Port List

The COBOL-IT Port List contains a comprehensive list of the Ports available for the COBOL-IT Compiler Suite Enterprise Edition.

The COBOL-IT Compiler Suite

Equal or Better Performance

  • Compiler Flags allow you to identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks.
  • COBOL-IT takes advantage of performance-oriented features of the “C” compiler.
  • High degree of tuning available for arithmetic computations, PERFORM tests, CALL statements, initializations of large tables, and more.
  • High-performance external sort module.

The COBOL-IT Compiler Suite

Minimizing Risks

  • A feature rich compiler tuned to provide the very highest level of compatibility with Rocket Software and IBM® COBOL compilers.

 

Rocket® COBOL-IT Developer Studio (formerly a Micro Focus® product)

 

The Rocket® COBOL-IT Developer Studio (formerly a Micro Focus® product) is an Eclipse-based development environment that allows you to develop, debug and maintain your COBOL applications in a highly-configurable project-oriented environment.

Our goal is to provide you with an Eclipse-based tool for Development and Debugging on all of the platforms on which the COBOL-IT Compiler Suite Enterprise Edition is available.

An Eclipse-based development environment that integrates the COBOL-IT Compiler, Runtime and Debugger and that can be operated on a Local or Remote Host.

  • The COBOL-IT Debugger provides the ability to step, or run through source, manage breakpoints, monitor variables, and view variable values in hex or ASCII format.
  • Use the COBOL-IT Runtime and Debugger installed on the remote machine to run your application, and to run your programs in debug mode.
  • In the Eclipse framework, the COBOL-IT Developer Studio provides the ability to manage projects on all the Windows/Linux/UNIX platforms on which COBOL-IT Compiler Suite is available.

 

The COBOL-IT Developer Studio

An Eclipse-based development environment

  • Eclipse is the most widely-used development environment framework and benefits from a mature toolset, a well-developed knowledge base and broad portability.
  • In the Eclipse framework, the COBOL-IT Developer Studio provides the ablity to manage projects on all the Windows/Linux/UNIX platforms on which COBOL-IT Compiler Suite is available.
  • Project can be built, run, and run in debug on both local machines, and remote host machines.

The COBOL-IT Developer Studio

A Powerful Debugger

  • The COBOL-IT Debugger provides the ability to step, or run through source, manage breakpoins, monitor variables, and view variable values in hex or ASCII format.
  • The COBOL-IT Debugger can be configured to run with specific environment variables.
  • When using a pre-compiler, the COBOL-IT Debugger may configured to debug original source code, or source code generated by the pre-compiler.
  • The COBOL-IT Debugger can be set to attach to a running process, and detached from the running process when debugging is complete.

The COBOL-IT Developer Studio

Develop, debug and maintain your application on local and remote hosts

  • Use the Developer Studio to compile, run, and run in debug on any machine on which you have the COBOL-IT Compiler Suite installed.

Learning & Documentation Resources

COBOL-IT eLearning Videos

Learning COBOL is essential for maintaining and modernizing the countless legacy systems that still power critical operations and industries.