What can Enterprise COBOL do for your business

Maximize the utilization of your z/Architecture® with the IBM® Enterprise COBOL for z/OS® compiler. COBOL applications may not automatically run faster after they are moved to new IBM Z® hardware. To maximize your IBM Z mainframe ROI and improve the performance of your business critical applications, stay current with the latest 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 helps your existing COBOL applications work with modern infrastructure technologies with native support for JSON, XML, and Java®.

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.

Improve productivity

Improves productivity through newly created usability features to simplify programming techniques, problem determination, and support tools supplied by IBM and other ISVs.

Modernize your applications

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

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.

Automatic Binary Optimizer (ABO)

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.

IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS features

  • Fully exploit z/Architecture
  • Use Enterprise COBOL and Automatic Binary Optimizer together
  • Continuous delivery of enhancements
  • Improve productivity
  • Easy migration
  • Modernize applications
  • COBOL Report Writer
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“89% of surveyed IT organizations are likely to recommend IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS*”

Source: TechValidate: https://www.techvalidate.com/tvid/012-C15-198

*Based on respondents who rated their likelihood to recommend as 7 or higher on a scale of 0 to 10.

“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

Source: TechValidate. https://www.techvalidate.com/tvid/EF7-04A-C79

“Since all our most critical applications are in COBOL – including our core banking and credit card authorization systems – investing in an updated compiler made perfect sense, giving us enhanced programming features and optimized performance.”

Spokesperson

A large North American bank

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“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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