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COBOL Program Documentation

 

This is a list of COBOL documentation products that allow COBOL application understanding, business rules extraction, code restructure, modeling, modernization, analysis, beautifier, and reengineering of COBOL applications:
 > ACM-CORECT
Company: SoftwareMining

Desc: This product extracts business rules as COBOL, Java or C# code-snippets and generates flowchart documentation.
OS: Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP, IBM, DEC VAX, Wang, Stratus, Shadow, Tandem, Unisys
[demo] [downloads] [manuals] [support]

 > Application Analyzer
Company: Relativity Technologies

Desc: It demystifies your application code and provides powerful analysis tools, including impact analysis and interactive documentation that reduce costs and allow your team to focus on higher value development activities.
OS:
[downloads]

 > Application Browser
Company: Visible Systems

Desc: This is a unique COBOL reengineering product which extracts critical information regarding the data and process flows of COBOL applications and then stores this information as a model a repository.
OS: Windows
[demo] [downloads] [support]

 > ArcStyler
Company: Interactive Objects Software GmbH

Desc: Application logic is captured in models which serve as the basis for automatic transformation to various technologies.
OS: Linux, Solaris, Windows NT/XP/2000
[demo] [downloads] [manuals] [support]

 > ASG-Encore
Company: ASG

Desc: This is the COBOL reengineering component of ASG-Existing Systems Workbench which creates reusable COBOL components.
OS: MVS, OS/390, z/OS
[support]

 > ASG-Insight
Company: ASG

Desc: This is the COBOL understanding component of ASG-Existing Systems Workbench which enhances the understanding of program flow and data usage for more intelligent maintenance.
OS: MVS, OS/390
[support]

 > ASG-SmartDoc
Company: ASG

Desc: This is the COBOL documentation component of ASG-Existing Systems Workbench, providing documentation for COBOL programs.
OS: MVS, OS/390
[support]

 > AX/ware Visual OCC
Company: PKS Software GmbH

Desc: It analyzes COBOL 400 code and generates Java-like business language.
OS: AIX, HP-UX, iSeries, Linux, Solaris, Windows NT/XP/2000, zSeries

 > COBClean
Company: Norcom

Desc: This product cleans up COBOL source code without altering COBOL program logic.
OS: Windows, Mainframe
[support]

 > CobolBeautifier
Company: Siber Systems

Desc: This product beautifies (pretty-prints) COBOL programs which parses your program just like a real COBOL compiler, and then it generates Cobol code from the resulting Cobol Program Tree.
OS: AIX, Linux, Windows NT/XP/2000
[demo] [downloads]

 > COBOL Documentation
Company: Spohn Software

Desc: For each COBOL program you send them, they can provide you valuable documentation on copybooks, called programs, verb usage, and more.
OS:

 > COBOL Documentation Tool
Company: EvolveWare

Desc: This tool automates 100% the discovery and extraction of program logic, business rules and data model from COBOL CICS, VSAM, DB2 applications.
OS: Mainframe
[support]

 > Cobol Glossary
Company: MacKinney Systems

Desc: This is a productivity tool to automate system documentation.
OS: VSE, MVS, z/OS
[demo] [support]

 > CobolReporter
Company: Siber Systems

Desc: This product reports various information about COBOL programs, including data layout, line count, lines of code, subsystem use, source files, and other COBOL program information.
OS: AIX, Linux, Windows NT/XP/2000
[demo] [downloads]

 > Compuware Program Analyzer
Company: Compuware

Desc: It helps developers using Xpediter perform even more advanced yet easy-to-understand analyses of complex COBOL programs through views of the program's structure, data items and logic.
OS: Windows XP/2000, z/OS
[support]

 > DCD III
Company: Marble Computer

Desc: This COBOL data correlation and documentation product can make your program analysis much quicker and easier. COBOL Narrative is built for each data division data name to replace continuous page-flipping during maintenance. It can replace the Compile Listing with its own sophisticated reports to really make things easy for your business.
OS:
[downloads] [manuals] [support]

 > DMS Software Reengineering Toolkit
Company: Semantic Designs

Desc: This is a set of tools for carrying out custom reengineering of medium and large scale software systems (documentation extraction, analysis, porting, translation, modification, interface changes, or other massive regular change) and/or domain-specific program generation.
OS: Windows NT/XP/2000
[demo] [downloads] [manuals]

 > E-GEN MAP
Company: Zelena

Desc: This is the most comprehensive and easy to use documentation package on the market today.
OS: MVS, OS/390
[demo] [support]

 > E-GEN NORMS
Company: Zelena

Desc: It not only optimizes the time spent to verify the compliance of your Files and Datasets with the Standard defined in your Data Center, but it also helps to automatically create a comprehensive list highlighting the naming conventions standards found on one site.
OS: MVS, OS/390
[demo] [support]

 > emergeIT
Company: blackboxIT

Desc: It enables analysts to find the business rules enforced by COBOL code.
OS: Mainframe
[downloads] [support]

 > Enterprise IT Understanding
Company: BluePhoenix Solutions

Desc: This solution enables companies to better understand their IT environment, more efficiently manage IT systems, integrate new software packages, re-use existing systems, build new applications and comply with new governmental regulations.
OS:

 > Enterprise IT Redevelopment
Company: BluePhoenix Solutions

Desc: This solution mines and extracts business rules, data flows, and data models, then reuse proven code base to create more flexible Java/Web-based systems.
OS:

 > evolveIT
Company: blackboxIT

Desc: It is a PC tool that enables analysts and programmers to understand complex COBOL applications.
OS: Windows
[downloads] [support]

 > evolveIT
Company: Transoft

Desc: This is a mainframe mining tool that provides a model of the entire COBOL application, including not only the COBOL code but also all the other elements of the application, such as JCL.
OS: Windows NT/XP/2003/2000
[support]

 > ILOG Rules for COBOL
Company: ILOG

Desc: It allows users to author business rules that will be used to generate COBOL code.
OS: Java
[demo] [downloads] [manuals] [support]

 > KRIS
Company: Asetechs GT8

Desc: The KRIS Platform is a unique combination of source code analyzers, a Knowledge Base, Quality, Compliance and Structural Engines and Portals.
OS: MVS, Unix (Linux, Sun), Windows
[downloads]

 > LegacyAid
Company: CASEMaker

Desc: The analysis and redocumentation tools assess the impact of changes to the system, create diagrams of program logic flow, and generate metrics data such as Kiviat diagrams and complexity reports.
OS: Windows NT/XP/2000/9x
[demo] [downloads] [manuals] [support]

 > RainCode Checker
Company: RainCode

Desc: It verifies compliance to coding rules in your applications.
OS: Linux, Windows, UNIX
[demo] [manuals]

 > RainCode Engine
Company: RainCode

Desc: This product parses all your sources and allows you to manipulate and transform them the way you want it.
OS: Linux, Windows, UNIX
[demo] [manuals]

 > RainCode Roadmap
Company: RainCode

Desc: This product generates technical COBOL documentation about your applications.
OS: Linux, Windows, UNIX
[demo] [manuals]

 > Revolve
Company: Micro Focus

Desc: This is a tool that helps developers understand, document and improve COBOL applications on a daily basis.
OS: Windows NT/XP/2000/9x
[demo] [downloads] [manuals] [support]

 > Re2Spec
Company: Specifik Software

Desc: This is a tool to automate system documentation for COBOL and PL/1.
OS:
[downloads]

 > Source-Navigator
Company: Source-Navigator Project

Desc: This is a source code analysis tool where you can edit your source code, display relationships between classes and functions and members, and display call trees.
OS: UNIX, Windows
[downloads] [manuals]

 > Specialized Analysis and Modification Tools
Company: Semantic Designs

Desc: These tools take a badly formatted source program, and reformat it into a standard style with appropriate indentation for language block structures.
OS: Windows NT

 > StarTool
Company: Serena Software

Desc: It offers a full set of programmer productivity tools that allows mainframe developers to increase accuracy and efficiency.
OS: OS/390, z/OS
[support]

 > USFlowchart
Company: CyberMetrics

Desc: This is a flowchart and structure chart tool that generates structure charts from cobol source automatically.
OS: Windows NT/XP/2000/9x

 > Visible Analyst
Company: Visible Systems

Desc: It enables true enterprise application engineering by storing and documenting data, processes, business requirements, and objects that can be shared by developers throughout an organization.
OS: Windows NT/2000/9x
[demo] [downloads] [manuals] [support]

 > Visustin Flow Chart Generator
Company: Aivosto Oy

Desc: Visustin generates flow charts from code written in several COBOL dialects.
OS: Windows NT/XP/ME/2000/2003/9x
[downloads] [manuals] [support]

 > VS/Cobol Analyzer
Company: MacKinney Systems

Desc: This product examines program libraries and identifies OS/VS COBOL programs.
OS: VSE, MVS, z/OS
[demo] [support]

 > Xpediter/DevEnterprise
Company: Compuware

Desc: This is an advanced analysis tool that helps developers understand, analyze, segment, build, test and extend application development.
OS: Windows XP/2000, z/OS
[support]

 > XREFPLUS
Company: Software Engineering Of America

Desc: It provides an installation-wide view of how JCL and PROC libraries are using datasets, programs, PROC's, and catalogs as well as DASD and tape volumes.
OS: MVS/ESA
[demo] [downloads] [support]

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