Migrate Your COBOL Applications to a Cost-Effective, High-Performance Platform NTT DATA Enterprise COBOL

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Modernize legacy systems with high-performance COBOL solutions Benefits: Maintaining your legacy mainframe or Micro Focus COBOL systems can be costly in today’s constantly evolving digital realm. To stay competitive, you need to migrate to a • Offers a cost-effective cost-effective platform. NTT DATA Enterprise COBOL provides a powerful environment alternative to legacy for you to develop and deploy robust, business-critical COBOL applications on mainframe and Micro scalable, open systems. It is well suited to handle your mission-critical online and batch Focus COBOL environments, as well as stand-alone application deployments. • Supports ANSI-85 standard and legacy Maximize the value of your existing resources COBOL dialects With NTT DATA COBOL, you can lower your total cost of ownership without impacting • Produces reliable and your existing development teams. Core components of the platform include: efficient object code that • A powerful COBOL compiler can be deployed on a • A streamlined, portable runtime environment range of platforms • Flexible IDE for Visual Studio and an Eclipse-based workbench • Complies with standard • Graphical and command-line source-level debuggers external file handler • A range of data access capabilities to simplify transitions to NTT DATA COBOL (EXTFH) and external sort module (EXTSM) Supporting the ANSI-85 standard and legacy COBOL dialects, the NTT DATA COBOL interfaces compiler produces optimized, portable object code that you can deploy on a variety of • Includes a powerful Linux®, UNIX® and Microsoft Windows® platforms to take full advantage of 32-bit or 64- COBOL compiler, a bit deployments. streamlined runtime environment, a The NTT DATA COBOL compiler handles the majority of operational analysis and source-level debugger execution instructions performed by alternative platforms during runtime. This approach and a portable indexed can significantly improve critical runtime performance. file system • Provides a flexible environment for integrating with external software NTT DATA Enterprise COBOL

The NTT DATA COBOL runtime • A dump of COBOL working-storage existing skill sets, application code and environment can also enhance memory, including each data item administrative tools on open systems performance by optimizing access name, length, value and hexadecimal to help improve your bottom line and to COBOL data types using native byte dump of the data item contents prepare your enterprise for the future. memory. With this memory management technique, COBOL data is loaded in Robust and comprehensive NTT DATA COBOL’s Java Invocation API a single operation when possible, as data access and Java-to-COBOL and COBOL-to- opposed to one byte at a time. The NTT The modular design of NTT DATA Java CALL interfaces provide seamless DATA COBOL runtime environment has COBOL supports a wide range of data integration between COBOL programs been designed to minimize overhead access options. and Java Enterprise Edition server and deliver improved performance in environments. With NTT DATA COBOL’s common enterprise scenarios, as well NTT DATA COBOL supports all common innovative framework, you can natively as interlanguage calls such as Java or C COBOL file organizations and record call legacy COBOL programs from calling COBOL or COBOL calling Java types. This includes indexed, relative, Java servlets, web services, Enterprise or C. binary sequential and line sequential file JavaBeans or any other Java program. organizations, with fixed and variable Debugging and diagnostics length records. NTT DATA COBOL also The NTT DATA COBOL runtime supports EXTFH interfaces (to access environment includes sophisticated, virtual storage access method files and remote debugging capabilities. You can generation data groups) and EXTSM choose to use a command-line debugger, interfaces (to access external sort a graphical stand-alone packages like Syncsort® DMExpress®). debugger, or the debugging capabilities NTT DATA COBOL also has a built-in found in the Visual Studio IDE or Eclipse ESQL compiler that translates EXEC Workbench to perform source-level SQL statements to JDBC calls, and also debugging activities. supports Pro*COBOL®, IBM® DB2® and other precompilers. When regular debugging techniques are not able to address a production error or NTT DATA COBOL also includes JISAM, a problem cannot be easily reproduced, a portable indexed sequential access the exception dump report feature is method file system that enables fast available to help you report access to data files. on the state of an application at the moment of the error. This report can be COBOL for business-critical used to identify the root cause operations of an issue by providing all pertinent NTT DATA COBOL provides an information, including: alternative to legacy COBOL • Execution environment details, platforms commonly found running such as the date and time when business-critical transaction processing the exception occurred, the runtime systems. Extensive COBOL dialect framework version and loaded support makes it easy for you to migrate programs in use existing applications with little to no • The names of the COBOL program, application code change. Valuable paragraph and source file, as well application code can be quickly as the source line number of the re-platformed and distributed on a wide code that was executing when the range of open systems. exception occurred • The COBOL call stack at the time Via integration with NTT DATA COBOL the exception occurred, including the offers an established, scalable platform names of all programs in the stack to re-host your mission-critical online and and the names of the associated batch mainframe assets to open systems. source files Our mainframe re-hosting software uses

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