Veryant, a COBOL-to-Java vendor, has released vCOBOL Enterprise, a platform to migrate legacy COBOL applications off IBM mainframes. vCOBOL includes an optimized compiler and COBOL-to-Java runtime ...

One of the most difficult development activities for an enterprise is to take legacy mainframe code and turn it into a collection of services for use in a service-oriented architecture (SOA). It turns ...

With an estimated 200 billion lines of COBOL in production today, mainframe applications form the core of many financial and other services across the corporate world. These applications often ...

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Veryant, a COBOL-to-Java migration tools vendor, has released a new version of its isCOBOL Application Platform Suite (APS) software. The suite aims to blend the business-oriented nature of COBOL with ...

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IBM has overhauled how the 50-year-old programming language COBOL runs on its System z mainframes to give COBOL apps a web-friendly facelift. Despite COBOL's age IBM estimates that more than 200 ...