Rocket® Visual COBOL®

Enable agentic COBOL development and modernize applications across distributed, virtualized, and cloud platforms with the market-leading solution. 

 

How can you accelerate modernization with Rocket Visual COBOL 12.0?  

  • Replatform, modernize, and cloud-enable mission-critical COBOL applications with minimal code changes and no disruption.

  • Unlock core business logic and data to deliver new customer value and stay competitive.

  • Deliver updates faster by enabling agentic COBOL development with AI-assisted analysis, coding, and testing across applications of any size or complexity.

  • Simplify onboarding for new engineers and empower teams with industry-standard tools, including Eclipse®, Visual Studio®, and Visual Studio Code®, along with GenAI assistance, and DevOps workflows.

  • Extend COBOL applications by integrating them with today's technologies, including Windows, UNIX, Linux®, .NET, JVM, APIs, microservices,​ and containers. 

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Bring agentic AI to COBOL development

Make your entire COBOL estate AI-ready and unlock AI-assisted analysis, development, and testing grounded in the unique context of your applications and business. Empower developers of all experience levels to work more productively with COBOL while accelerating modernization and reducing risk. 

 

Quick onboarding

Onboard new developers in days, not months by providing AI-guided context for any COBOL code 

Accuracy

Create accurate, production-ready COBOL code grounded in the context of your applications — accurate, idiomatic, hallucination-free. 

Scalability

Generate and expand unit tests at scale to increase confidence, reduce risk, and make change safer. 

How does Rocket Visual COBOL simplify COBOL modernization?

Run your COBOL applications on any platform

Deploy COBOL applications across the latest operating systems, clouds, containers, and dozens of supported platforms with a single flexible codebase that reduces technical debt and lowers costs.  

Move away from retired infrastructure and unsupported mainframes to Windows®, UNIX®, Linux®, cloud, and ARM. 

Build, deploy, and modernize COBOL applications in the latest modern frameworks like .NET and JVM.

Replatform your application fast by recompiling your COBOL to your target platforms of choice — without rewriting your code.

Refactor COBOL code and reuse existing functionality

Quickly isolate and extract COBOL business rules and data by AI-driven automated unit tests or by exposing rules as APIs using your REST web services framework: 

Easily re-use COBOL business logic with other applications for enhanced solutions.

Integrate COBOL applications with any API or services-based infrastructure.

Get full visibility into your code, business logic, and data

Use the proven static code analysis toolset, enriched by GenAI insights and visualizations, to help any developer quickly understand COBOL applications of any scale and complexity. 

Ask questions in natural language for insights into code dependencies and downstream code change impact

Reduce the learning curve and accelerate onboarding for developers who are new to COBOL applications. 

Release faster with Agile, DevOps, and CI/CD

Scale your COBOL development and testing with Docker containers while managing and orchestrating with Kubernetes. Write once and deploy anywhere — on-prem or in public cloud including AWS®, Azure®, and Google Cloud.

Use Agile, DevOps, and continuous integration practices.

Containerize your API delivery and enjoy scalable deployment through Kubernetes.

Leverage COBOL data across systems

Build custom reports and make data-informed decisions with seamless access to your COBOL data: 

Use JSON and XML to ensure COBOL data exchange across different applications, platforms, and systems.

Access data directly from COBOL files into Microsoft® Excel® , BI reports and other platforms, without rewriting COBOL code.

Rocket Software Named a Challenger in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for AI-Augmented Code Modernization Tools

Rocket COBOL products are designed for code transformation and application reimagining, especially for legacy software in financial and government institutions that demand rigorous traceability.​

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Modernize COBOL applications and empower developers with Rocket solutions for DevEx

As part of Rocket’s focus on Developer Experience (DevEx), Visual COBOL makes COBOL modernization practical and accessible. Our platform combines a next-gen COBOL dialect, GenAI-powered development tools, and seamless integrations into the modern IT stack. Leverage AI code assistants, cloud integration, and API support to drive rapid digital initiatives—empowering cross-functional teams to innovate without COBOL expertise. Equip any developer with the tools, skills, and insights needed to modernize and maintain COBOL applications, reducing reliance on scarce, specialized resources.

See how Rocket prioritizes DevEx across our product suite to empower developers and drive modernization.

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How do global enterprises leverage Rocket Visual COBOL? 

 

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The Department for Work and Pensions: Revolutionizing Applications with Rocket® COBOL

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MAIF: Revolutionizing Insurance Operations with Rocket® Visual Cobol®

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SYSPRO: Transforming Legacy Systems Into Future-Ready Solutions with Rocket® Visual COBOL®

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Meeting you wherever you are in your modernization journey

With 5000+ successful projects and nearly 50 years of experience, we know every modernization journey is unique. We help you assess your current systems, train your developers on COBOL and Rocket products, and provide expert engineering support during implementation to deliver results that hit your goals.

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