COBOL | Rocket Software

(formerly part of Micro Focus)  

Powering the next generation of COBOL applications and talent

Rocket^® COBOL products are the leading solutions for modernizing distributed COBOL applications. With support for industry-standard development tools and GenAI assistance, your engineers can confidently update, extend, and evolve even the most complex codebases.

Build new features faster and adopt contemporary IT architectures like containers, APIs and microservices, .NET, Java^®, and multicloud — all while preserving core business logic that drives your success today.

Modernization as a best practice. Build tomorrow on today’s strength.

800 billion lines of active COBOL code support today’s mission-critical business systems, so you are not alone in your modernization journey. Enterprises around the world continue to support and modernize their COBOL applications.

70 ^%

of global business transactions are powered by COBOL applications.

92 ^%

of COBOL applications are strategic to critical systems across many industries, including travel, insurance, retail, banking, and government.

99 ^%

of organizations that selected modernization over rewriting as their business strategy delivered results on time and within budget.

Faster development, faster delivery

Empower engineers of any background to work efficiently with COBOL using familiar, industry-standard tools and GenAI. With Rocket COBOL products, your team can confidently navigate and update even the most complex and large-scale COBOL applications, faster.

Adopt Agile and DevOps to accelerate cross-team collaboration, speed up the delivery of new business requirements, and stay competitive.

Streamline COBOL development with industry-standard tools like Eclipse^®, Visual Studio^®, and Visual Studio Code^®.

Automate testing and deployment by setting up Unit Testing and CI/CD pipelines.

Accelerate onboarding for engineers at any level of COBOL experience with GenAI-assisted development tools.

Run COBOL across the IT landscape

Deploy COBOL applications effortlessly across platforms, including distributed, virtual, container, and multicloud environments on Windows^®, Linux^®, and UNIX^®.

Maintain a single, flexible codebase to reduce technical debt and lower operational costs.

Get support for the latest operating systems and platforms to boost application performance and reduce risks.

Move COBOL workloads seamlessly across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and private clouds.

Re-platform your COBOL applications from host systems such as ICL/Fujitsu and Unisys to x86/x64 architectures.

Extend application value to lead the market

Improve user experiences and drive new business value by integrating COBOL applications with contemporary IT architectures like APIs and microservices, .NET, and Java.

Modernize your mission-critical applications, leveraging decades of business logic and data instead of rewriting it from scratch.

Natively deploy COBOL on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and .NET

Get seamless access to COBOL from Java and C#.

Transform and deliver COBOL applications as APIs, Java, or .NET services.

Leveraging Rocket Visual COBOL, we created a CI/CD and container pipeline approach in AWS^® to give us rapid deployment capability. Instead of two major releases each year, over the last 12 months, we deployed 800 times.”

Mark Bell Virtual Machine Environment—Replacement Program Deputy Director Department for Work and Pension

When we rolled out the re-platformed application with Rocket Visual COBOL we actually saw an overall performance boost of more than 20 percent. Not only are our processes running faster, but we can scale out and run more concurrent processes.”

Chuck Wainscott Director of Architecture FIS Asset Management Group

Working with Rocket Visual COBOL for Eclipse, developers can extend the functionality of existing applications gradually and smoothly integrate them with new Java technology, which was difficult before.”

Rainer Midderhoff Head of Application Development & IT Security Officer LV 1871

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 5,000+ 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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