Overview

What can Enterprise COBOL do for your business

To maximize your IBM z/Architecture® ROI and improve performance of your business-critical applications, stay current with IBM® Enterprise COBOL for z/OS® compiler and IBM Automatic Binary Optimizer for z/OS (sold separately) and selectively optimize CPU-intensive parts of the applications.

Enterprise COBOL works with infrastructure technologies with native support for JSON, XML, and Java® and AMODE 64 (64-bit), including interoperability with AMODE 31 (31-bit).
COBOL migration

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Enterprise COBOL for z/OS Migration Portal

If you are migrating from Enterprise COBOL 4 or earlier versions to COBOL 6, you can visit the COBOL Migration Portal, which is a centralized place of all the Enterprise COBOL for z/OS migration-related information.

The one-stop portal provides detailed information, including case studies, COBOL experts interview videos, the cloud-based COBOL Migration Assistant, COBOL Migration and Performance Tuning Webinars, FAQs, other IBM products to support your migration, and many other resources, which help ease your migration efforts from COBOL 4 or earlier to COBOL 6 compiler.

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Benefits

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Optimize performance

Reduces CPU utilization and operating costs by utilizing the COBOL compiler's leading edge optimization technology and ability to exploit the latest IBM Z® hardware and middleware.
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Improve productivity

Improves productivity by leveraging new usability features to simplify programming techniques, problem determination, and support tools supplied by IBM and other ISVs.
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Modernize your applications

Modernizes your applications with features that have been extended to support web, cloud, and mobile infrastructures.
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Compatible with earlier COBOL compilers

Compatible with earlier COBOL compilers with no need to recompile an entire application to use features from the latest release.
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Enterprise COBOL and Automatic Binary Optimizer (ABO) team up

Use the latest version of Enterprise COBOL for new development, modernization and maintenance. Use ABO (sold separately) to improve the performance of the COBOL modules without a recompilation plan.

Client testimonials

Since we upgraded to IBM Enterprise COBOL Version 6 we’ve seen performance improve by up to 20 percent, which allows our core systems to handle increasing workload without affecting system response times.

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A large North American bank

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The COBOL compiler product is a solid, high-quality product and we continue to have great success with COBOL 6.

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A large American insurance provider

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Very good language, easy to learn and the latest version performs very well for both old and new code.

Steve Kemp
Systems Programmer
Computacenter.com

IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS features

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Fully exploit z/architecture

Generates code to take advantage of IBM z16™, IBM z15™, IBM z15 T02, IBM z14®, IBM z14 ZR1, IBM z13®, IBM z13s®, IBM zEC12 or IBM zBC12 processors without the need for source code changes. In addition, it increases hardware ROI by incorporating leading edge optimization technology.

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Continuous delivery of enhancements

Supports the Continuous Delivery (CD) model so that you can receive new features and enhanced capabilities as soon as the code is ready. You can now receive enhancements in a faster and more continuous way without waiting for the next release.

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Easy migration

Introduces compiler enhancements such as new compiler options to detect or correct invalid data issues, which help ease your migration efforts from COBOL 4 or earlier to COBOL 6 or later compiler. In addition, the one-stop COBOL Migration Portal contains all the COBOL migration-related information to support your migration.

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