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Rocket® Visual COBOL® (formerly a Micro Focus® product)

Keep COBOL application modernization on distributed, virtual, and cloud platforms

With Rocket® Visual COBOL 10.0 you will:

  • Replatform, modernize, and cloud-enable your mission-critical COBOL applications with minimal code change and risk
  • Unlock core business logic and use it in applications throughout your hybrid cloud
  • Conquer the skills shortage by modernizing core COBOL business systems, using new technologies and tools, modern development IDEs (Eclipse, Visual Studio), and rich text editors (Visual Studio Code)

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Move your COBOL applications anywhere

Move your COBOL applications to the cloud, or any other platform, without changing your code:

  • Move away from retired infrastructure (AIX, HP-UX, Solaris) and unsupported mainframes (Bull, Fujitsu, Tandem, Unisys) to Windows, Linux, and cloud
  • 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 easily and quickly — without rewriting your COBOL code

 

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Refactor COBOL code and get what you need — instantly

Quickly isolate and extract COBOL business rules and data by developing 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

Visualize your code and data flows and increase application understanding

Use the A-enabled Natural Language Assistant to gain quick insights into large, complex applications:

  • Ask questions in natural language for insights into code dependencies and downstream code change impact
  • Reduce the learning curve and promote faster onboarding for new developers unfamiliar with COBOL applications

Agile, DevOps, and CI/CD for COBOL — release more frequently

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

Integrate COBOL data across systems

Seamless COBOL data access for reporting:

  • Use JSON and XML to ensure COBOL data exchange across different applications, platforms, and systems
  • Access data directly from COBOL files into Excel, BI reports and other platforms, without rewriting COBOL code

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