Posted by Mike on Thursday, August 11, 2011 - 287 views
New isCOBOL Evolve provides cost-effective, modern path for COBOL application investments
CHICAGO – August 15, 2011 – Veryant, the COBOL and Java technology innovator, today announced up to a 40% thin client performance improvement, new cross-platform portability, and modernized user interface capabilities for its popular isCOBOL Evolve.
The new software release maximizes the value of existing COBOL assets, reduces ongoing software licensing costs, and simplifies application modernization.
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Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Thursday, April 7, 2011 - 604 views
New version of isCOBOL enhances GUI development and maximizes value of existing IT resources
CHICAGO, April 11, 2011 –
Veryant, the COBOL and Java technology innovator, today announced the immediate availability of
isCOBOL Evolve 2011 Release 1. To lower software licensing fees and simplify application modernization, isCOBOL Evolve enables developers to continue programming in a familiar COBOL environment, and at the same time, deploy and enhance applications across multiple platforms in an open Java framework without rewriting code.
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Posted by Mike on Tuesday, March 29, 2011 - 354 views
When you come right down to it, Jeff Papows argues that IT organizations have only a handful of options available to forestall this problem. They can either embark on COBOL training and an application modernization project, or they can attempt to rewrite these applications in a modern language that is thoroughly documented.
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Posted by Mike on Friday, January 21, 2011 - 297 views
COBOL, one of the oldest programming languages created, is often thought to be as dead as Latin. Yet, as we reported in October, COBOL remains a consistently in-demand skill for enterprise developers. Why? Maybe because, according to an announcement from application modernization company Micro Focus, there are still 220 billion lines of COBOL code in active use in enterprise applications today. Micro Focus claims that COBOL still powers 70% of the world’s businesses. READ MORE
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Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Sunday, November 14, 2010 - 304 views
BMC published an interesting survey at the end of October. There were more than 1700 mainframe users participating in the survey, and about half of the organizations surveyed have revenues in excess of US$1 billion. I think it’s generally assumed that the total number of mainframe sites globally is between 6000 and 7000.
Highlights of the survey included the findings that 84% of respondents expected to see growing or steady MIPS usage on the platform, with almost 60% anticipating that the mainframe will attract new workloads over the next year.
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Posted by Mike on Friday, October 22, 2010 - 1,023 views
Free software tool allows rapid conversion of legacy enterprise application COBOL or C data structures to/from XML and SOAP.
Canam Software Labs, Inc. is pleased to announce the availability of XML Thunder Lite, a free downloadable software tool that allows quick conversion of COBOL COPYBOOKS or C data structures to XML, XSD or SOAP. By automating an essential process for application modernization that up to now was manual and error prone, XML Thunder Lite benefits end users as well as IT services organizations. XML Thunder Lite is a bi-directional solution as it also allows conversion of XML, XSD, WSDL or SOAP to COBOL COPYBOOKS or C structures. Built on years of experience working with enterprise customers this solution encapsulates best practices and practical project experience. READ MORE
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Posted by Mike on Wednesday, September 22, 2010 - 226 views
Application modernization is not an all-or-nothing proposition. When it comes to legacy application software, it turns out that not only is there a lot of duplicate code, but a lot of functions are better handled by a packaged piece of middleware. In fact, you might find 60 percent of the code running on a mainframe, for example, could be eliminated or replaced by middleware running on a less-expensive platform.
This doesn’t necessarily mean that all legacy application code should be replaced. Most of the business logic in, for example, a COBOL application running on a mainframe might be more trouble than it is worth to rewrite. But IT organizations should take a hard look at exactly what type of code is running where on their mainframes because chances are that more than half of it isn’t really necessary. READ MORE
Posted by Mike on Wednesday, September 8, 2010 - 217 views
New Micro Focus tools for moving mainframe data to Microsoft SQL Server and migrating PL/I applications
Staunchly holding onto its position in the enterprise application modernization market, Micro Focus has launched what it describes as a two new “next generation” mainframe migration tools. The company says that Micro Focus Studio Enterprise Edition (Studio EE) and Server Enterprise Edition (Server EE) v6.0 SP1 will deliver enhanced mainframe migration capabilities to companies looking to simplify their IT infrastructures.
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