by webadmin | Jan 11, 2013 | applications, general, Micro Focus, Software Development, Software Migration, Software Modernization, system integration
COmmon Business-Oriented Language, popularly-known as COBOL, has existed for pretty much 5 decades. But, the use and support for the application still stays active. COBOL is really a solution of the distributed campaigns of a few government offices and computer manufacturers of its time, in the desire of having a sophisticated program language for business, financing and administrative techniques and to utilize the technical hardware and software designs available in the period COBOL’s utilization was at its peak. COBOL, in recent times, has created a huge fan base of computer manufacturers, programmers and customers, and remains being thought to be one of many hottest computer languages by: government agencies military offices professional enterprises educational facilities Operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, IBM, in addition to Unix and Linux. There are several reasons why people coming from different groups of individual and government corporations prefer using COBOL over other computer languages, even today. 1. COBOL is a huge language-of-choice for financial, company and administrative programs worldwide. 2. COBOL is effective at coping with a diverse pair of processing methods. 3. COBOL is one of the hottest computer languages for computer conversation or client-server communication. 4. Through the years COBOL has developed a really large consumer base and hundreds and thousands of developers have already been engrossed in the COBOL program language. Several developers are capable of giving support and maintenance for programs designed utilizing the COBOL program language. 5. Plenty of mission-critical business systems around the globe have been designed utilizing the COBOL program language. 6. COBOL is extremely an easy task to learn, to keep up and to file. COBOL is just a self-documenting program language e-system and has been often been recognized for the readability. 7. COBOL is very portable, and is cross-platform efficient. It may be shifted around various standard hardware and software programs with minimum risk of losing valuable information. 8. It can be created using contemporary compilers, and COBOL is just a scalable language and can actually be modified in to more recent enterprise applications using proper history modernization techniques. Additionally there are several elements increased by modern-day developers and users against the usage of the COBOL language, as the characteristics and advantages of using the COBOL language have been outlined...
by webadmin | Oct 17, 2012 | general, Micro Focus
When people ask me about Micro Focus COBOL Modernization, I’m always at a bit of a loss as to how to respond. First, is the question about moving off the mainframe and switching out the mainframe COBOL (such as Unisys COBOL or IBM COBOL) for the Micro Focus product? Or is the question related to getting rid of the customer’s existing Micro Focus COBOL and replacing it with a Java or .NET application? I’ve found that either could be the case. Taking the first possibility, moving off the mainframe might be a good thing, but why stay with the COBOL? You’ve gotten rid of the mainframe, and maybe saved $1m per year or more. But you’ve traded one vendor lock-in (your mainframe company) for another (Micro Focus), and you still have to recruit, train, or steal COBOL programmers. Doesn’t Micro Focus have monopoly pricing power for COBOL licenses? They’re not teaching COBOL to most freshman computer science graduates, and those of us that wrote it in the 70’s and 80’s are more than eligible for retirement. Worse, you don’t have the wide variety of open source software and great development tools to choose from if you stick with COBOL, and it’s difficult to build highly responsive web applications using what will soon be a 50 year old computer language! I’m often struck, also, by the cost of this kind of Micro Focus COBOL Modernization project. COBOL is COBOL, right? So why does it take years and millions of dollars to move it from one computer to another? Well, actually there are good reasons, starting with the somewhat mistaken idea...
by webadmin | Aug 10, 2012 | Code Generation, contractors, Micro Focus, Software Development, Software Migration, Software Modernization
Micro Focus has recently come up with many new options meant to cut expenses and also to cut time, when it comes to building or just maintaining applications used by organizations; some of these options are Micro Focus Cobol, Micro Focus Server Express, Micro Focus DevPartner Studio, Micro Focus Silk4J and Micro Focus for Visual Studio. These options generally enable Java and other devs to modernize their mainframes, by offering a reliable support in the entire cycle that involves editing, compilation and debugging. Micro Focus Cobol– Server Express (RDO) The Micro Focus Server Express will permit client to maintain their programs in Cobol and make the code sourcing on the server that represents the target, preventing them from transferring code between a development environment and the Linux/Unix server, where applications run and are being tested. It also allows the usage of local services and databases. How does it help organizations The RDO along with the Micro Focus Cobol and all the other options is the answer to the needs of any organization in point of debugging and testing application, as close to their production as they can be. This actually translates into a substantial time reduction, because if until now it was a matter of days until a development project could be completed, this can now be done in a few hours, which means more productivity and thus more satisfied customers. Advantages of Micro Focus Cobol and other Micro Focus tools There are many advantages that this option has for its users and these are only a few of them: – Increase of productivity due to time reduction of...
by webadmin | Aug 3, 2012 | applications, Code Generation, general, legacy modernization, legacy system, main, Micro Focus, recent work featured, Software Development, Software Migration, Software Modernization, system integration
What is Micro Focus Cobol? According to Wikipedia COBOL is one of the most ancient programming languages. Its name comes from the words COmmon Business-Oriented Language, a definition for its main use in finance and other businesses, as well as in systems of administration for governments and companies. Its date of birth is18th of September 1959. A bit of history of Cobol In the second part of that year, a team consisting of several researchers coming from different sectors of the private industry but also from the government and educational departments got together with the purpose of creating a different technical approach to a common business language. 3 government agencies joined the battle, among which there was also the US Air Force . There were 6 computers manufactures, users, on one hand, and the University of Pennsylvania Computing Center on the other hand. A year later, the first compilers for COBOL were implemented on two different computers, demonstrating that compatibility is possible. And that was only the beginning. Today, after 40 years, Cobol is a programming the language dedicated to stable applications for businesses, while MF Cobol is the power engine behind the modern Cobol. The engineers continued to move forward to meet users’ demands. They were there when tools such as Visual Cobol was born, so that Cobol applications is able to run on JVM, Linux or Windows. MF Cobol in Business Micro focus COBOL has been the dominant programming language in the business domain. Around the year 2000, the company estimated that there were about 300 billion lines of computer code in use in the world and...
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