Micro Focus Cobol — New Options for Modernization of Mainframes

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Micro Focus Cobol New Options for
Modernization of Mainframes
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Micro Focus has recently come up with many new
options meant to cut expenses and also to cut
time, when it comes to building or just
maintaining applications used by organizations
some of these options are Micro Focus Cobol,
Micro Focus Server Express, Micro Focus
DevPartner Studio, Micro Focus Silk4J and Micro
Focus for Visual Studio. These options generally
enable Java and other devs to modernize their
mainframes, by offering a reliable support in the
entire cycle that involves editing, compilation
and debugging. Micro Focus Cobol- Server Express
(RDO) The Micro Focus Server Express will
permit client to maintain their programs in Cobol
and make the code sourcing on the server that
represents the target, preventing them from
transferring code between a development
environment and the Linux/Unix server, where
applications run and are being tested. It also
allows the usage of local services and databases.
How does it help organizations? The RDO along
with the Micro Focus Cobol and all the other
options is the answer to the needs of any
organization in point of debugging and testing
application, as close to their production as they
can be. This actually translates into a
substantial time reduction, because if until now
it was a matter of days until a development
project could be completed, this can now be done
in a few hours, which means more productivity and
thus more satisfied customers. Advantages of
Micro Focus Cobol and other Micro Focus tools
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• There are many advantages that this option has
  for its users and these are only a few of them
• Increase of productivity due to time reduction of
  processes
• The functionality called Eclipse meant for help
  developers modernize various MF Cobol assets
• The source code remains on the target server,
  meaning less time for the activities of source
  control
• The operation of debugging takes place also in
  the target-environment, enabling the use of local
  databases this also enables the development
  environment to work at full capacity on the local
  station.

Other Micro Focus Options Besides Micro Cobol
and Server Express, there are also three other
newly launched tools, also integrated with Visual
Studio. The first is Micro Focus Silk4J, which
is a tool meant to enable the automation of tests
toVisual Studio 2010.
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The second one is called Micro Focus DevPartner
Studio, which is an application debugging,
analyzer, tester and tuner for devs, thus having
an easier access to the inside application
workings that are developed in Visual Studio.
The third one is Micro Focus Analyzer Express
for Visual Studio, which is a speeding tool,
meant to help devs keep work their maintenance
faster. Micro Focus has understood that
organizations need to stay in the game, therefore
they have come up with new tools meant to support
them in the process of increasing their
productivity in order to attract more and more
customers in this tough market. Micro Focus
Server Express, Micro Focus Cobol, Micro Focus
DevPartner Studio are all products for success!
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