Micro Focus wants to help businesses modernize COBOL apps

COBOL specialist Micro Focus has launched the subsequent iteration of their COBOL growth and integration instruments, Visual COBOL 7.0 and Enterprise Suite 7.0.

Devised in 1959, COBOL with over 220 billion traces of code nonetheless in use immediately, is without doubt one of the oldest programming languages that’s nonetheless powering a superb a part of the world’s banking, enterprise and governmental techniques.

The newest releases equip COBOL customers to modernize their business-critical functions operating on the mainframe or distributed environments.

“This latest release reinforces our commitment to our customers by delivering proven, robust solutions that protect their investments and enables them to meet the changing business expectations while taking advantage of new environments and infrastructures,” stated Neil Fowler, General Manager of Application Modernization and Connectivity at Micro Focus.

Application modernization

The launch options the latest updates with a view to give builders new methods to work with legacy enterprise functions.

According to Micro Focus it centered on three elements particularly on this launch. Enabling builders to use Visual Studio Code for COBOL growth helps them benefit from the newest programming conveniences to handle their legacy code.

Similarly, the mixing with Micro Focus Fortify offers builders the power to scan their COBOL code for vulnerabilities throughout each Micro Focus COBOL and mainframe-based functions. Finally, the discharge additionally helps enhance the cloud compatibility of the mainframe COBOL apps.

“Scalability and serviceability allows applications and data to scale out elastically on lower cost commodity cloud infrastructure but retain the same or better level reliability and continuous operations seen on the mainframe,” asserts Micro Focus.