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	References to COBOL migration, mainframe migration, code conversion, generators, translators, rehosting, parsing, porting, and other COBOL legacy migration products and solutions:
>	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 [demo] [downloads] [manuals] [support]
>	AMXW Company: Activant's Productivity Tools Group 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 [demo] [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 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 [support]
>	ASG-Cortex-MS Company: ASG Desc: This is a set of customizable software tools and a method for migrating an IT center from VSE/ESA operating systems to z/OS or OS/390. OS: OS/390, z/OS [support]
>	Automated Legacy Software Migration Tools Company: Micro-Processor Services Desc: Automated legacy software migration tools with support and expert conversion services for mainframe and embedded systems to convert or translate legacy programs and software source code from COBOL, PL/I, IBM ASM360, IBM ASM 370, ASM390, Pascal, Delphi, MASM, Intel PL/M, Intel ASM, Motorola ASM, HP ASM, Hitachi ASM, Borland TASM, Motorola RASM to "C", ".NET", "C++", "C#", "J#", JAVA and XML. OS: Windows NT/XP/ME/2000 [support]
>	CA-Easytrieve 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
>	CA-Migrate/COBOL Company: Computer Associates Desc: This is a COBOL analysis, transformation and migration system designed to provide a smooth and cost-effective migration to IBM's VS COBOL II or COBOL 370 language from a variety of COBOL languages. OS: MVS [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 [demo]
>	CATRAN Company: California Translations Desc: This system manages your programs through the conversion process, generates the target source, and reports on the status of your migration. OS: Mainframe [support]
>	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, VSAM, DB2 applications to CA's AllFusion Gen (formerly Advantage Gen/Cool Gen) models. OS: Mainframe [support]
>	Cobol2Java Company: Corporola Desc: This is a COBOL to Java program transformation system that translates COBOL source code into high quality Java source code. OS: Java runtime environment 1.1.6 or later [manuals] [support]
>	COBOL-2-Java Company: EvolveWare Desc: This tool automates, up to 90%, the documentation and conversion of COBOL CICS, 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, 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: [demo] [support]
>	COBOL Conversions Company: Raincode Desc: The COBOL conversion services include VSAM to SQL, COBOL Datacom/DB to SQL, IDEAL Datacom/DB to COBOL SQL, and customized COBOL conversions at very low cost and quick turnaround. OS: Unix, Linux, Windows NT/XP/ME/2000/9x, z/OS, z/VSE, z/Linux
>	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 Obfuscation Company: Spohn Software Desc: Their process of Obfuscation, along with the Compression service they offer, makes any COBOL program completely unreadable, and pretty much unable to be returned to it's former state, without intimate knowledge of the source code. OS:
>	COBOL Parser Company: CoCoLab Desc: This includes several grammars and COBOL parsers. OS: Unix, Windows NT/XP/ME/2000/9x [demo] [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 NT/XP/ME/2000/9x, z/OS
>	CobolTransformer Company: Siber Systems Desc: This COBOL conversion product family analyzes, converts, or generates COBOL source programs. OS: Linux, Windows NT/9x [demo] [downloads]
>	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 migration of mission critical applications and databases (IDMS, Adabas, VSAM and IMS) either mainframe to mainframe or to newer platforms such as the .NET framework. OS: [downloads]
>	Data Type Conversion (SortCL) Company: CoSort / IRI, Inc. Desc: This is 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 [demo] [support]
>	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]
>	Dialect Converters Company: Fujitsu Software Desc: This product converts the source from COBOL dialects such as IBM COBOL, Micro Focus COBOL, and Microsoft COBOL. OS: Windows NT/XP/2000/9x [demo] [downloads] [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]
>	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 [demo] [support]
>	Enterprise IT Migration Company: BluePhoenix Solutions Desc: This solution helps companies standardize and consolidate their IT systems, automatically performing mainframe migration, database migration, data migration, platform migration, application migration - any legacy migration needed - redeploying these assets to modern environments. OS:
>	File Format Conversion (SortCL) Company: CoSort / IRI, Inc. Desc: This is 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 [demo] [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 [demo] [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: CoSort / IRI, Inc. 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 [demo] [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 NT/2000 [support]
>	Legacy Renewal Solution Company: Computer Associates Desc: Here is a a knowledge-based solution that migrates legacy COBOL DB2 and COBOL VSAM applications to modern platforms and architectures such as J2EE, .Net, Unix, as well as the back to the mainframe. OS: Mainframe, UNIX, Windows [support]
>	Legacy Transition Solutions Company: Clerity Solutions, Inc. 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. OS: [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:
>	LION Company: ASYSCO Desc: LION migrates UNISYS LINC CONVERSION TECHNOLOGY and converts Unisys LINC & COBOL Legacy Systems (Host LINC, EAE or Hand Coded COBOL) to OPEN Platform and Open Database systems. OS:
>	Mainframe Migrations Company: KEOUS Desc: CRATOS can provide complete Mainframe Migration Services and Solutions, assist with Business Cases/Planning, provide technical consulting/resources, migrate a specific component (eg. Assembler code) or provide experienced Migration Project Management. OS:
>	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 NT/XP/ME/2000/9x [demo] [downloads]
>	Migration Tools 400 Company: PKS Software GmbH Desc: This product transforms native iSeries Cobol 400 code into native code for open systems. OS: AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, Windows NT/XP/2000
>	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
>	Mpact Company: ESI Services Desc: Company specializes in the mainframe migration of COBOL from varied environments to the .NET environment. OS: [support]
>	NeoKicks Company: Fujitsu Software 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 XP/2003/2000 [demo] [downloads] [manuals] [support]
>	Open COBOL Company: Transoft Desc: It converts VMS COBOL to UNIX COBOL compilers including Micro Focus COBOL and Acucobol. OS: Alpha/Open VMS [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]
>	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 [demo] [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]
>	SCORE Transformation Suite Company: Delta Software Technology GmbH Desc: This product replaces platform-specific elements of legacy application with platform independent patterns. OS: Platform-independent [support]
>	Solaris OE Analyzer for C/C++ and Cobol Source Code Company: Sun Microsystems Desc: This analyzes issues of porting COBOL source files from other platforms to Solaris. OS: Solaris SPARC/x86, Windows NT/2000/9x [downloads] [support]
>	Sort PlugIns Company: CoSort / IRI, Inc. Desc: This product provides replacements for the native sort utilities in ACUCOBOL-GT, Micro Focus COBOL, Software AG Natural, SAS, Unix /bin, DataStage, and Informatica. OS: IBM zLinux, Linux, OS/400, Unix, Windows [demo] [support]
>	Transaction Platform Company: LegacyJ Desc: This permits CICS COBOL applications to migrate to J2EE environment. OS: Operating system independent [demo] [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
>	Unisys COBOL to Open Systems Company: ESI Services Desc: 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 [downloads] [support]
>	XFORM/UNIX Company: Transformix Desc: This product migrates MPE/iX COBOL II applications to UNIX or Linux. OS: AIX, HP-UX, Linux, SCO, Solaris [support]
>	XFRAME Company: High Technology World Company (HTWC) Desc: The product suite makes possible the migration of applications actually running on z/OS, OS/390, MVS and VSE to a wide range of UNIX and Linux systems. OS: UNIX/Linux [support]
>	XGEN 4GL Company: Idea Integration Desc: XGEN is designed to be a database and datacom independent precision tool for the generation of portable COBOL. OS: AIX, AS/400, HP-UX, S/390, Solaris, Tru64, Windows NT/XP/2000 [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 NT/XP/2000/9x [downloads] [support]
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