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Dell Enterprise COBOL

Develop and deploy robust, business-critical COBOL applications on scalable open systems. Modernize legacy systems with high-performance COBOL solutions Dell Enterprise COBOL provides a powerful environment for you to develop and deploy robust, business-critical COBOL applications on scalable open systems. A cost-effective alternative to legacy mainframe and Micro Focus® COBOL dialects, Dell Enterprise COBOL is well-suited to mission-critical interactive and batch environments, as well as standalone application deployments. Key benefits

• Offers a cost-effective alternative Maximize the value of existing resources to legacy mainframe and Micro You can lower your total cost of ownership (TCO) without impacting existing Focus COBOL development teams using Dell Enterprise COBOL. Core components of the • Supports ANSI-85 standard and technology include: legacy COBOL dialects • Powerful COBOL • Produces reliable and efficient • Streamlined, portable run-time environment object code that can be deployed on • Flexible Visual Studio-based integrated development environment (IDE) a range of platforms • Graphical and command-line source-level • Complies with standard external file • Range of data access capabilities to simplify transitions to Dell handler (EXTFH) and external sort module (EXTSM) interfaces Supporting the ANSI-85 standard and legacy COBOL dialects, the Dell Enterprise • Includes a powerful COBOL COBOL Compiler produces optimized, portable object code that you can deploy on compiler, streamlined runtime a variety of Linux® and ® platforms to take full advantage of 32- environment, source-level debugger or 64-bit deployments. and a portable system • Provides a flexible environment for The Dell Enterprise COBOL compiler handles the majority of operational analysis integrating with external software and execution instructions performed by alternative platforms during runtime. This approach can significantly improve critical runtime performance. Dell Enterprise COBOL

The Dell Enterprise COBOL runtime • The COBOL call stack at the time the it easy for you to migrate existing environment can also enhance exception occurred, including the applications with little to no application performance by optimizing access to names of all programs in the stack code change. Valuable application COBOL data types using native memory. and the names of the associated code can be quickly replatformed and With this source files distributed on a wide range of technique, COBOL data is loaded in • A dump of COBOL working-storage open systems. a single operation when possible, as memory, including each data-item opposed to one byte at a time. The name, length, value and Dell Enterprise COBOL technology is runtime environment has been designed byte dump of the data-item contents integrated with Dell Mainframe to minimize overhead and deliver Re-hosting software to offer an improved performance in common Robust and comprehensive established and scalable platform to enterprise scenarios, as well as inter- data access re-host mission-critical online and batch language calls such as calling COBOL The modular design of Dell Enterprise mainframe assets to open systems. Dell’s or COBOL calling C. COBOL supports a wide range of data mainframe re-hosting software uses access options. existing skill sets, application code and and diagnostics administrative tools on open systems The Dell Enterprise COBOL runtime The technology supports all common help improve the bottom line and environment includes sophisticated, COBOL file organizations and record better prepare an enterprise to sustain remote debugging capabilities. You types. This includes indexed, relative, competitive advantages in the future. can choose to use a command-line binary sequential and line sequential file debugger, a graphical standalone organizations, with fixed and variable The COBOL software’s Invocation debugger or the debugging capabilities length records. Dell Enterprise COBOL API also provides seamless integration found in the Visual Studio IDE to perform also supports EXTFH and EXTSM between COBOL programs and source-level debugging activities. interfaces. Dell Enterprise COBOL Java Enterprise Edition (JEE) server has a built-in embedded structured environments. With Dell Enterprise When regular debugging techniques are query language (ESQL) compiler that COBOL technology, COBOL programs not able to address a production error or translates embedded SQL (EXEC SQL) can be called directly from Java a problem cannot be easily reproduced, statements to JDBC calls, and also programs. Our innovative framework the Abend Diagnostic Snapshot (ADS) supports Pro*COBOL, DB2 and other enables you to natively call legacy facility is available to help you report precompilers. COBOL programs from java servlets, on the state of an application at the web services, Enterprise JavaBeans or moment of the error. This report can The Dell Enterprise COBOL platform any other Java program. be used to identify the root cause also includes JISAM, a portable indexed of an issue by providing all pertinent sequential access methodfile system For more information about any information, including: that enables fast access to data files. of our service offerings, please • Execution environment setting details visit Dell.com/services and such as the program version, runtime COBOL for business-critical Dell.com/appmod or contact your framework and loaded programs in use operations Dell representative. • The names of the COBOL program, Dell Enterprise COBOL provides an paragraph and source file, as well alternative to legacy COBOL platforms as the source of the commonly found running business- code that was executing when the critical transaction processing systems. exception occurred Extensive COBOL dialect support makes

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