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References to COBOL migration, mainframe migration, COBOL code conversion, data migration, generators, translators, rehosting, parsing, porting, and other COBOL legacy migration products and solutions:
 > +1Copybook
Company: +1 Software Engineering

Desc: +1Copybook converts COBOL copybooks into Oracle SQL*Loader Control Files or SQL Server Format Files used to load copybook data into a database. +1Copybook generates HTML output, CREATE TABLES scripts, converts implied decimal point and signed data for SQL Server, performs error checks, supports data type overrides, and more.
OS: Microsoft Windows, Solaris, Linux, Unix, Mac OS
[eval] [manuals] [support]

 > ACM-CORECT
Company: SoftwareMining

Desc: This product translates COBOL or CA-IDEAL applications to Java or C#.
OS: Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP, IBM, DEC VAX, Wang, Stratus, Shadow, Tandem, Unisys
[eval] [downloads] [manuals] [support]

 > ACPS
Company: Argentine COBOL Programmers Service

Desc: We specialize in IT Outsourcing, developing our tasks in remote mode into Mainframe Environments, respecting quality norms of our Clients.
OS: Mainframe
[support]

 > AMELIO Modernization Platform
Company: Delta Software Technology

Desc: AMELIO Modernization Platform is a tailor-made factory that completely automates the changes of large IT applications for the modernization of legacy applications, platform migration, application transformation, conversion, re-engineering or architecture consolidation.- AMELIO Modernization Platform automates the legacy migration from Bull, Fujitsu, Siemens, Unisys, ICL and many more mainframes onto Unix, Microsoft Windows, IBM or other platforms - 100% automatic and therefore secure, reliable and error-free, no footprint and no vendor lock-in.
OS: AMELIO Modernization Platform runs on Windows and supports migration and modernization for nearly all architectures, languages, operating systems, middleware, TP monitors and database systems.
[support]

 > AMT-LION or AMT-VS (Visual Studio)
Company: ASYSCO

Desc: Asysco Migration Technology (AMT) LION helps you migrate your A-Series or 2200 applications to the Microsoft Windows and SQL Server environment. It allows you to protect, modernize and enhance your major investment in your Unisys LINC and/or COBOL systems.
OS:
[support]

 > AMT-VS (Visual Studio)
Company: ASYSCO

Desc: AMT-VS allows you to move to an open systems environment based on the Microsoft .NET. It takes advantage of the latest Microsoft products such as SQL Server, Visual Studio, along with C# and VB.Net.
OS:
[support]

 > AMXW
Company: Speedware Ltd.

Desc: AMXW (Automated Migration to UNIX and Windows) is a complete tool designed to migrate HP e3000 COBOL, SPL, C, FORTRAN and Pascal application environments to the HP 9000, Integrity Itanium, Windows, Linux, Sun, or AIX platforms.
OS: AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, Windows XP/2000
[eval] [downloads] [manuals] [support]

 > ANSI VPLUS Adapters and Tools
Company: Advanced Network Systems

Desc: It migrates VPLUS user interfaces to open standards such as XML or J2EE.
OS: MPE/iX
[downloads]

 > Application Migration & Re-Architecting
Company: Transoft

Desc: Here are solutions to move your key applications onto modern hardware platforms and operating systems.
OS: AIX, AOS/VS, DOS (PC), DOS/VSE, GCOS, HP/UX, Linux, MCP, MPE, MVS, OpenVMS, OS 2200, OS 400, OS/VS, Solaris, UNIX, VME, Windows
[downloads] [support]

 > Automated Software Conversion Tools
Company: Micro-Processor Services

Desc: This COBOL translator is a family of cross compiler tools that accepts many COBOL dialects and converts them to C, C++, CPP, C#, CS, JAVA or J# , XML.
OS: Windows
[downloads] [support]

 > Automation-Enabled Modernization (AEM)
Company: Trinity Millennium Group

Desc: Automation-Enabled Modernization (AEM) is a unique blend of automated support and application-specific processing. Rather than offering a tool with a simplistic syntax-based conversion from COBOL to other languages, Trinity Millennium Group uses an extensive tool suite internally to identify and automate custom legacy-to-modern mappings for each client's application.
OS: Mainframe
[downloads] [support]

 > CA Migrate COBOL
Company: Computer Associates

Desc: It is a comprehensive, totally automated, COBOL analysis, transformation and mainframe migration system designed to provide a smooth and cost-effective migration to IBM VS COBOL II or COBOL/370 language from a variety of COBOL languages.
OS: z/OS, z/VSE
[support]

 > Casegen Enterprise
Company: Casegen Technologies

Desc: This is an application program generator that builds COBOL programs that run under CICS or IMS/DC.
OS: Windows
[eval]

 > CB2CONV
Company: GSF Software

Desc: It upgrades COBOL programs written to the 68 or 74 standards (supported by the VS COBOL for DOS/VS or VS COBOL for OS/VS compilers) and makes them compatible with the VS COBOL II compiler (85 standard) and all of its successors, such as COBOL for OS/390 and VM, COBOL for VSE, and Enterprise COBOL for z/OS and OS/390.
OS: MVS/ESA, OS/390, z/OS
[support]

 > COBOL-2-AllFusion Gen
Company: EvolveWare

Desc: This tool automates the documentation and conversion of COBOL CICS, COBOL VSAM, DB2 applications to CA's AllFusion Gen (formerly Advantage Gen/Cool Gen) models.
OS: Mainframe
[support]

 > COBOL-2-Java
Company: EvolveWare

Desc: This tool automates, up to 90%, the documentation and conversion of COBOL CICS, COBOL VSAM, DB2 applications to 100% pure Java code.
OS: Mainframe
[support]

 > COBOL-2-.Net
Company: EvolveWare

Desc: This tool automates up to 90% the documentation and conversion of COBOL CICS, COBOL VSAM, DB2 applications to VB or C# .Net code.
OS: Mainframe
[support]

 > COBOL Conversions
Company: Computer Support Services

Desc: They provide conversion services to convert programs from Digital Equipment, IBM CICS, IBM IMS, Honeywell, BULL, Prime, UNISYS, and Wang machines to run on machines with UNIX, LINUX, and NT.
OS:

 > COBOL Conversions
Company: Datatek

Desc: A company can use Datatek's automated COBOL conversion service to convert its COBOL code to another programming language that has a larger pool of developer support.
OS:

 > COBOL Conversions
Company: J & C Migrations

Desc: The COBOL conversion services include RPG II and III, Wang VS, and COBOL to COBOL conversions.
OS:
[eval] [support]

 > COBOL KeePIR HP for iSeries ILE COBOL
Company: PIR Group Inc.

Desc: This is a group of automated COBOL conversion utilities that migrates HP COBOL to iSeries ILE COBOL.
OS:
[manuals]

 > COBOL KeePIR Mainframe to iSeries ILE COBOL
Company: PIR Group Inc.

Desc: This is a group of automated COBOL conversion utilties that converts mainframe CICS COBOL to the iSeries AS/400, inclu ding IDMS and IMS/DL1 to AS/400 relational database, CA-ADS/O to native AS/400 DDS, and MVS JCL to AS/400 CL.
OS:
[manuals]

 > COBOL KeePIR WANG to iSeries ILE COBOL
Company: PIR Group Inc.

Desc: This is a group of automated migration utilities that migrates Wang VS COBOL to mainframe CICS COBOL, AS/400 COBOL, and Micro Focus COBOL.
OS:
[manuals]

 > COBOL Parser
Company: CoCoLab

Desc: The parser implements full COBOL including features such as report writer and communication section. It includes several grammars and COBOL parsers.
OS: Unix, Windows
[eval] [downloads] [manuals] [support]

 > COBOL Parser
Company: Cobol Parser Project

Desc: This describes an implementation of a COBOL 85 parser for JavaCC
OS: Unix, Windows
[downloads]

 > COBOL Parser
Company: Raincode

Desc: Scripting language allows flexible transformations of COBOL as desired. Off the shelf scripts include COBOL restructuring (GOTO elimination), dead code elimination, expression simplification, documentation generation,coding guidelines enforcement, etc.
OS: Unix, Linux, Windows, z/OS

 > CobolTransformer
Company: Siber Systems

Desc: This COBOL conversion product family analyzes, converts, or generates COBOL source programs.
OS: Linux, Windows
[eval] [downloads] [support]

 > Convert/ADSO
Company: Forecross

Desc: This product is a fully automated migrations solution that converts your existing ADSO dialogs into ready-to-test COBOL programs that are in all other respects functionally identical to their ADSO counterparts. It supports a variety of user interfaces (including CICS, UNIKIX and Micro Focus CICS Option) in the target environment.
OS: Mainframe
[support]

 > Convert/CSP
Company: Forecross

Desc: This product converts your existing CSP applications into ready-to-test CICS command level COBOL programs that are in all other respects functionally identical to their CSP counterparts.
OS: Mainframe
[support]

 > Convert/IDMS-DB
Company: Forecross

Desc: This product converts your existing IDMS/DB programs, data and databases into ready-to-test applications supporting any ANSI standard SQL environments including DB2, Oracle, Informix or Sybase.
OS: Mainframe
[support]

 > Convert/IDMS-DC
Company: Forecross

Desc: This product converts your existing IDMS/DC programs into ready-to-test CICS command level programs that are in all other respects functionally identical to their IDMS/DC counterparts.
OS: Mainframe
[support]

 > Convert/VSAM
Company: Forecross

Desc: This product converts your existing COBOL VSAM programs, data and files into ready-to-test applications supporting any ANSI standard SQL environments including DB2, Oracle, Informix or Sybase.
OS: Mainframe
[support]

 > Database and Application Migrations
Company: ATERAS

Desc: ATERAS provides automated solutions for the mainframe migration of mission critical applications and databases (IDMS, Adabas, COBOL VSAM and IMS) either mainframe to mainframe or to newer platforms such as the .NET framework.
OS:
[downloads]

 > Data Type Conversion (SortCL)
Company: IRI, The CoSort Company

Desc: This product translates to and from COBOL and binary data types at the field level within files. EBCDIC to ASCII, Packed to Numeric, Zoned to Integer and vice versa, for example.
OS: IBM zLinux, Linux, OS/400, Unix, Windows
[eval] [support]

 > Datacom Migration
Company: Raincode

Desc: The DataKom tool suite covers all aspects of CA-Datacom to SQL migration. DataKom migrates CA-IDEAL applications to standard and readable COBOL.
OS: Mainframe
[eval]

 > Datacom Migrations
Company: Tiburon Technologies

Desc: Tiburon is a national leader in performing an automated Datacom migration to SQL Server, Oracle or DB2.
OS: zOS, DOS/VSE

 > DDS Plug-In
Company: LegacyJ

Desc: This plug-in permits the reuse and display of iSeries DDS screens with PERCobol.
OS: OS/400
[manuals] [support]

 > DialogSys2Java
Company: LegacyJ

Desc: It converts Micro Focus Dialog System screens to Java graphical screens.
OS: AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, Windows
[manuals] [support]

 > Easytrieve to COBOL Conversion
Company: Mergilent

Desc: Here is a fully automated tool to convert CA-Easytrieve code to very elegant and higly maintainable COBOL code.
OS: z/OS, Unix, Windows
[downloads]

 > edWin/3K
Company: Ordina Denkart

Desc: This product migrates HP MPE/iX VPLUS screen applications to OPEN system user interfaces.
OS: AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, Windows
[support]

 > E-GEN WS
Company: Zelena

Desc: This re-engineering tool eliminates the need for manual JCL coding on the OS/390, produces error-free JCL and up-to-date documentation that can be viewed as flowcharts on a PC workstation.
OS: MVS, OS/390
[eval] [support]

 > Erudine Behaviour Engine (EBE)
Company: Erudine

Desc: As applied to COBOL, Erudine Behaviour Engine can rapidly create system behaviour using a simple but effective process centred on the concept of case-based reasoning. The behaviour of a system not only denotes its functionality - 'what' the system does - but also the reason for that functionality - 'why' the system does it.
OS:
[eval] [downloads] [manuals] [support]

 > File Format Conversion (SortCL)
Company: IRI, The CoSort Company

Desc: This product translates to and from Micro Focus C-ISAM, MF COBOL Variable Length, ACUCOBOL Vision, Blocked, and Sequential (flat) files, including CSV, XML, and Line / Record / Variable Sequential files.
OS: IBM zLinux, Linux, OS/400, Unix, Windows
[eval] [support]

 > Files2sql
Company: COBOL.com

Desc: Files2sql is a unique software (made in Cobol) for migrating Cobol Files (Indexed, Relative, Sequential) to databases (SQL-Server, MS-Access, Oracle, DB2, Sybase, MySql, Informix, ....) in minutes, without programming.....
OS: Windows
[eval] [downloads] [manuals] [support]

 > GEN-CODE
Company: King Computer Services

Desc: This is an easy-to-use COBOL code generator that quickly produces Add, Change, Inquire and Delete programs to your specifications.
OS: Windows
[support]

 > Grammar Deployment Kit (GDK)
Company: SourceForge.net

Desc: It provides tool support in the process of turning a given grammar specification into a working parser based on firm grammar engineering methods.
OS: Unix, Windows
[eval] [downloads] [manuals]

 > Grammar Recovery Kit (GRK)
Company: National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science in the Netherlands

Desc: This is a software toolkit for semi-automatic grammar recovery that is demonstrated for IBM's VS Cobol II by deriving an authoritative definition of VS Cobol II from IBM's application programming reference semi-automatically.
OS: VSE/ESA
[downloads]

 > JCL Converter
Company: UV Software

Desc: This product converts MVS or VSE JCL to Korn shell or Perl scripts for Unix, Linux,or Windows/SFU. Converts most utility steps (SORT,IDCAMS,IKJEFT01,IEBGENER, FTP,MAIL,ISRSUPC, etc). Profiles supplied to allow scripts to execute under multiple test or production environments.
OS: MVS/VSE converted to Unix, Linux, or Windows/SFU
[downloads]

 > JCL Sort Parm Converters
Company: IRI, The CoSort Company.

Desc: This product converts JCL sort cards in MVS and VSE to CoSort SortCL job scripts, in support of mainframe-to-Unix (or Windows) migrations.
OS: IBM zLinux, Linux, OS/400, Unix, Windows
[eval] [support]

 > JCLTRANS - The JCL Translator
Company: GSF Software

Desc: It automatically translates the JCL, as well as utility steps and control statements, and in-line source programs in a variety of supported languages.
OS: MVS, OS/390, z/OS
[support]

 > IDMS Migrations
Company: Tiburon Technologies

Desc: Tiburon is a national leader in performing an automated IDMS migration to DB2, SQL Server or Oracle.
OS: zOS, DOS/VSE

 > Legacy Liberator
Company: Transoft

Desc: This product migrates ACUCOBOL, Net Express, or Server Express to an open systems platform.
OS: iSeries, Linux, UNIX, Windows
[support]

 > Legacy Migration and Modernization Solutions
Company: Clerity Solutions

Desc: Clerity provides a comprehensive set of solutions and services around assisting clients in mainframe rehosting and the transition of their legacy applications to more interoperable open systems environments such as UNIX, Linux, and Linux on System z.
OS:
[support]

 > Legacy Solutions
Company: Idea Integration

Desc: Our team can migrate your IBM and Unisys mainframes to UNIX, Windows Server 2003, or a multitude of other options.
OS: IBM Mainframe, Unisys Mainframe, Windows
[support]

 > Legacy eTrans-Formation Service (LeTS)
Company: Comptramatics

Desc: This is an automated Cobol to Java transformation process that quickly, easily, and inexpensively transforms your legacy systems to internet enabled, object oriented Java.
OS:

 > Mainframe Migration
Company: KEOUS

Desc: KEOUS is a solutions-oriented company 100% focused on system/application migration and modernization. Our services include Code Migration (COBOL, PL1, Fortran, Assembler, JCL,... to .NET, J2EE (including C#, Java...) and Conversion, Data Migration, New System Development, Customization/Enhancements, System Maintenance, and Production Support.
OS:
[support]

 > MF, IBM, ICobol to Fujitsu Cobol Converters
Company: Siber Systems

Desc: These COBOL conversion tools convert Micro Focus COBOL, IBM COBOL, or ICobol dialects to Fujitsu Cobol85.
OS: AIX, Linux, Windows
[eval] [downloads] [manuals] [support]

 > Migration Tools 400 OCC
Company: PKS Software GmbH

Desc: The Migration Tools 400 OCC create executable code for Windows, Linux and UNIX based on existing RPG, Cobol, CL and DDS source code. System i developers can execute their applications in any desired production environment without having to learn Java.
OS: AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, Windows
[downloads] [support]

 > MigrationToolList
Company: PIR Group

Desc: This is a list of automated mainframe migration, COBOL conversion, and tuning utilities.
OS: AS/400, Data General, Mainframe, Wang

 > Natural Engineer
Company: Generation Systems Limited (GSL)

Desc: Natural Engineer is a multi-purpose, multi-functional maintenance and migration tool for Natural applications. Natural Engineer also enables you to respond faster to technological developments such as the Web, while fully leveraging prior investment in Natural applications.
OS: Mainframe, Windows
[downloads]

 > NeoKicks
Company: Alchemy Solutions

Desc: This product, combined with NetCOBOL for .NET, provides all the pieces you need to migrate mainframe CICS applications to the .NET environment in a manner that positions your applications to take full advantage of the .NET Framework features.
OS: Windows
[downloads] [manuals] [support]

 > OpenSCL
Company: EBE Computing

Desc: This is a Windows application that allows you to run a mainframe environment, modeled on OpenVME, on a modern-day server running Windows, Linux or AIX.
OS: AIX, Linux, Windows
[downloads]

 > OpenVMS
Company: Transoft

Desc: Transoft can take your COBOL, Fortran, Pascal, C or Basic-based OpenVMS application together with its SMG or FMS forms, DCL and associated database(s), RMS, Rdb or Oracle to your choice of a UNIX, Linux, or Microsoft Windows environment and improve the functionality of your application along the way!
OS: Alpha/Open VMS
[downloads] [support]

 > PCYACC
Company: Abraxas Software

Desc: This is a complete language development environment that generates and parses C, C#, C++, Java, J#, Delphi, and VBS source code from input Language Description Grammars for building Assemblers, Compilers, Interpreters, Browsers, Page Description Languages [XML/SGML/HTML], Language Translators, Syntax Directed Editors, Language Validator's, Natural Language Processors, Expert System Shells, and Query Languages.
OS: Windows
[eval] [downloads] [manuals] [support]

 > QJB2CBL
Company: GSF Software

Desc: It translates QuickJob (Vision:Report) source code to COBOL or SORT. QJB2CBL supports VSE and MVS JCL streams as well as QuickJob source code which is in-line or off-line.
OS: VSE, MVS
[support]

 > ReDirect COBOL
Company: Forecross

Desc: This product upgrades your programs from older versions of COBOL, such as COBOL II or COBOL VS, to a newer year 2000 compliant version of COBOL, such as COBOL/370 or COBOL for MVS.
OS: Mainframe
[support]

 > Software Development Life Cycle
Company: Zylog Systems (Europe) Ltd.

Desc: We provide complete Software Development Life Cycle, ranging from new product development and product advancement to product migration, re-engineering, sustenance and support.
OS:
[downloads]

 > Transaction Platform
Company: LegacyJ

Desc: This permits CICS COBOL applications to migrate to J2EE environment.
OS: Operating system independent
[eval] [manuals] [support]

 > Transport
Company: SunGard Bi-Tech

Desc: This product migrates HP MPE/iX COBOL applications to other UNIX environments.
OS: AIX, HP-UX, Solaris

 > Transport/UNIX
Company: Transformix

Desc: This product migrates MPE/iX COBOL II applications to UNIX or Linux.
OS: AIX, HP-UX, Linux, SCO, Solaris
[support]

 > Unisys COBOL to Open Systems
Company: ESI Services

Desc: migrate!COBOL modular toolset migrates proprietary Cobol Applications like Unisys Cobol74 to new Open Systems using MicroFocus Cobol85. Migrate your Unisys COBOL systems to open systems MicroFocus COBOL with our 100% automated mainframe migration tools.
OS: Unisys
[support]

 > Vancouver Utility GDG (Generation Data Group) System
Company: UV Software

Desc: The VU conversion package provides a GDG generation file system for Unix, Linux, or Windows/SFU. An indexed control file allows for current generation over-rides for the next run, or until a specified expiry date/time is reached.
OS: MVS/VSE converted to Unix, Linux, or Windows/SFU
[downloads]

 > ViewJ
Company: LegacyJ

Desc: This product migrates COBOL applications, written in VPlus screen format, to run in Java.
OS: Operating system independent
[support]

 > VPLUS Migration
Company: ScreenJet

Desc: It transforms VPLUS/COBOL applications giving them a windows-style GUI
OS: MPE/iX
[eval] [downloads] [support]

 > XFRAME
Company: High Technology World Company (HTWC)

Desc: The XFRAME rehosting platform makes possible the mainframe migration of applications actually running on z/OS, OS/390, MVS and VSE to a wide range of UNIX, Linux and Windows systems.
OS: Linux, Unix, Windows
[support]

 > XMLBooster
Company: RainCode

Desc: This product generates a parser (to convert an XML input to a valid COBOL data structure) as well as an unparser (to convert the COBOL data structure back to an XML stream).
OS: Unix, Windows
[downloads] [support]

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