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.

Roadmap of your move to COBOL-IT

Understand what needs to be done, and how much you’ll spend and save.

COBOL-IT’s Process:

  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.

Service Packages

 

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

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

Interoperability with the other elements of your Enterprise Solution Stack

Certified with industry-leading database, transactional monitors, data manipulation tools, indexed file systems and third-party tools.

Certifications include Oracle® Database, Oracle® Tuxedo, Syncsort®.

EXTFH-compliant for indexed, relative, and sequential file handling.

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

COBOL-IT Compiler improves 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

A Transparent Transition

Distributed on all major Windows, Linux and UNIX platforms and highly compatible with IBM and Rocket Software COBOL

ANSI-85 COBOL Compliance

Support for IBM and Rocket Software COBOL compiler flags and compiler directives.

Highly configurable to support proprietary behaviors.

External sort module CitSORT highly compatible with DFSORT and MFSORT.

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.
 

The COBOL-IT Compiler Suite

Minimizing Costs

A high-performance runtime tuned to ensure that proprietary behaviors can be matched, ensuring a transparent transition.
 

Additional Features

Availability on all open system platforms

Easy to transition from any COBOL compiler on any system.

Open source core technology

Allows COBOL-IT to provide the highest value possible with a COBOL compiler that satisfies your requirements.

Subscription-based pricing

Provides Customers with a flat rate that secures the services they need when they need them. Customers avoid expensive and sometimes unpredictable new license costs.

Highly optimizable object code

COBOL-IT objects are created with the host machine’s “C” compiler. All the optimization capabilities of the “C” compiler are available to the COBOL programmer. When performance is critical, COBOL-IT fast performance can often be made even faster.

Compiler configuration file

Eases the transition of applications developed using other COBOL compilers, which may contain a lot of compiler flags and directives. COBOL-IT technicians and certified COBOL-IT partners can help you navigate through these issues and greatly shorten your transition time, saving you a lot of money.

Compatibility with EXTFH and EXTSM

EXTFH compatibility provides the COBOL-IT Enterprise Runtime System connectivity to any ISAM file system that is also EXTFH-compatible. EXTSM compatibility provides accessibility to any external data manipulation module that is EXTSM compatible.

Database connectivity

COBOL-IT allows you to connect to the latest releases of Oracle databases using the Oracle Pro*COBOL pre-compiler. COBOL-IT’s CitSQL Family of Pre-compilers provide connectivity to the latest releases of Oracle MySQL, PostgreSQL® and Microsoft® SQL Server® databases.

High-performance external SORT utility

CitSORT is a very high performance external data manipulation / sort utility which uses syntax compatible with DFSORT, MFSORT and AcuSort. It provides a straightforward plug-and-play replacement for these other utilities in most cases.

ICU code-page support

Opens the widest range of code-pages to users of COBOL-IT to ensure that they will be able to develop their applications for users around the globe.

EBCDIC character set handling

Provides a high-value capability for Mainframe users allowing them to perform batch processing in a Mainframe/Unix share folder. COBOL-IT’s support for the EBCDIC character set allows for the COBOL-IT compiler/runtime to be used and save expensive mainframe cycles.

Profiler

Records where the runtime is spending time, so that performance bottlenecks can be easily identified and removed.

Debugging tools

The debugger engine, cobcdb, is documented and provides the ability to attach to a running process, set conditional breakpoints, perform stepping operations, modify and display variable values in hex or ASCII format, monitor variables, reproduce the state of programs loaded in memory at the time of an abend and more.

 

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

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 COBOL-aware Code Editor

The COBOL-IT Code Editor provides configurable hot keys, pre-defined code fragments easily inserted into your code, tab settings, line numbers, colorization and capitalization of reserved words, support for ANSI and Terminal source formats and more.

The COBOL-IT Code Editor will reduce the number of errors you make while coding and reduce the time it takes to correct them.

The COBOL-IT Code Editor updates an Outline View of your code in real time, making it very easy to navigate within large source files.

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.

The COBOL-IT Developer

Studio A feature-rich, highly configurable Eclipse-based environment

Benefit from the broad portability, and ability to integrate the widest range of third-party tools into your Eclipse-based development environment.
 

Additional Features

Eclipse-based development environment

COBOL-IT Developer Studio is certified on Linux and Microsoft Windows platforms for working on projects located on remote machines.
 

Fully featured for the COBOL developer

The COBOL-IT Developer Studio includes the Developer Studio Perspective for work on local projects, a Remote System Explorer Perspective for work on remote hosts, and a Debugger Perspective for feature-rich debugging. The Developer Studio hosts powerful development tools, including a Data Displayer, Code Coverage, real-time Profiling, and built-in support for the Mylyn Task Manager and Git Source Code Control System.

Highly configurable work environment

Configure your workspace, populate your projects, set compiler flags and environment variables, and then build and run the programs in your application.

COBOL-aware code editor

Create programming templates, program hot-keys, colorize reserved words. Easily identify and correct compiler errors.

Integrate source and data stored in a distributed computing environment

Operates with files and folders on local or remote host machines.

Remote systems perspective

Allows you to create COBOL Workspaces, Projects, and Programs on remote host machines, use the local compiler, runtime and debugger, access code coverage, profiling and data displayer utilities, and interface with the Mylyn Task Manager and RSEGit Source Code Control System.

Access External Utilities

Maximizes the flexibility and adaptability of the development environment for the specific needs of the user.

Powerful string search functions

Allows the user to quickly identify searched strings, and if necessary, modify source code.

Outline View automatically generated from source code

Provides clickable entry points to specific points in the program, increasing the efficiency with which the programmer can navigate large source files.

Compiler Console view of the output from a build

Provides a familiar view on the workings of the compiler.

Debugger support for EBCDIC-encoded programs

Enhances debugging capabilities during transition from the mainframe.

Debugger support for UTF-8 protocol

Provides the ability to display values in Hex and in UTF-8 in the Variable and Monitor windows of the Debugger Perspective.

Debugger support for conditional breakpoints

Allows for breakpoints to be executed only when described conditions are met.

Support for third-party source code control systems

Improves Development capabilities by providing interfaces for configuring source code control commands.

Debug using COBOL debugger or “C” debugger

Attach a “C” debugger and step through “C” source code, and return to the COBOL debugger to step through COBOL code in the same debugging session.

Data displayer perspective for file editing

Open any indexed, relative, binary sequential or line sequential file in the Data Displayer in either Read-Only or Read-Write mode. Modify data in either ASCII or hex format.

Code coverage

Run your program with a Code Coverage Configuration, and collect information on lines of code executed by your application during a run cycle.

Profiler

Captures Memory and CPU usage for display in real time, and in summary form.

Git perspective

Provides access to full range of Git functionality. In addition to source code control, Git provides mechanisms to drive DevOps delivery with triggers for test automation servers like Jenkins.

MyLyn task manager

Provides access to Mylyn, the task and application lifecycle management (ALM) framework for Eclipse.

COBOL-IT web services perspective

Highly adaptable Web Services solution which allows the Developer to map COBOL functions to POST, GET, PUT and DELETE methods, and generate API strings and bridge programs for accessing those functions as Web Services.

Resources

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