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Specialized Analysis and Modification Tools These tools take a badly formatted source program, and reformat it into a standard style with appropriate indentation for language block structures.
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COBOL documentation software, including COBOL application understanding, flowcharts, business rules extraction, code restructure, modeling, modernization, analysis, data mining and reengineering of COBOL applications, are listed:
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Application Analyzer
Company: Micro Focus
Desc: Application Analyzer provides detailed application understanding and analysis. Application Analyzer enables development teams to discover how their applications are truly structured. Application Analyzer provides detailed business and technical insight into diverse application portfolios - from COBOL to Java and beyond.
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Application Browser
Company: Visible Systems
Desc: Application Browser allows COBOL reengineering and modernization. Application Browser is a unique COBOL reengineering product. Similar products produce reports and diagrams describing the legacy application. Application Browser also extracts critical information regarding the data and process flows of COBOL legacy systems and then stores this information as a model in the repository of the Visible Analyst. This gives you the power and flexibility of a robust, multi-user repository when reverse engineering your legacy system.
OS: Windows
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Application Documentation & Business Rules Extraction
Company: EvolveWare
Desc: EvolveWare's Legacy Modernizer extracts source meta-data to support the documentation and extraction of business rules from software systems. The product supports multiple source languages and is licensable. A web-based platform facilitates: the review of the source system including embedded program logic, business logic and data model in relational format; the dynamic generation of system level and program level diagrams and business logic flow charts; the derivation of business rules from extracted business logic. The product may be licensed to keep documentation current and perform impact analysis for "change requests" and "bug fixes". If required, the extracted business rules may be exported into business rules engines that support XML import.
OS: Legacy Modernizer runs on a Windows Server platform
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ASG-Encore
Company: ASG
Desc: ASG-Encore is the COBOL reengineering component of ASG-Existing Systems Workbench (ESW), an integrated life cycle solution for managing your organization's existing systems. Encore uses the Analytical Engine to populate the Application Knowledge Repository (AKR), so that code segments can be extracted based on business logic, user interface, and database access. From these code segments, Encore creates reusable COBOL components. With this application, your company can leverage its mainframe applications and prepare for e-business.
OS: MVS, OS/390, z/OS
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ASG-Insight
Company: ASG
Desc: ASG-Insight is for understanding COBOL application programs. ASG-Insight is the COBOL understanding component of ASG-Existing Systems Workbench (ESW), an integrated life cycle solution for managing your existing systems. Insight populates the Application Knowledge Repository (AKR) with Analytical Engine to provide you with the tools for navigating and deciphering COBOL application programs. Insight enhances the understanding of COBOL program flow and data usage for more intelligent application maintenance.
OS: MVS, OS/390
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ASG-SmartDoc
Company: ASG
Desc: ASG-SmartDoc is for documenting COBOL application programs. ASG-SmartDoc is the COBOL documentation component of ASG-Existing Systems Workbench (ESW), an integrated life cycle solution for managing your company's existing systems. SmartDoc uses Analytical Engine to populate the Application Knowledge Repository (AKR), thereby providing documentation for COBOL application programs. SmartDoc helps to quickly produce the documentation required for application maintenance and management processes.
OS: MVS, OS/390
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Business Rule Extraction-BRE Toolkit
Company: SoftwareMining
Desc: Business Rule Extraction is the process of isolating the code segments which are directly related to business processes. BRE Toolkit provides a set of utilities to: * Application flowcharts and Code Inventory * Program level flowcharts * Heuristics assisted identification of important "rule" variables * English Rules - Translation of COBOL rules from COBOL to Pseudo-English * Java and C# Rules: translated program components can be used directly in modernized application. * Data Dependencies - Identification and visual representation * HTML Documentation - Business Rules, program level and application level documentation in HTML.
OS: Runs on Windows, IBM, Wang, Micro Focus, Unisys, Stratus, Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP, Tandem, BULL and others
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COBClean
Company: Norcom
Desc: COBClean is a program that cleans up COBOL source code without altering COBOL program logic. COBClean also makes it easy to apply site standards to your COBOL source code. COBClean takes care of reformatting your code into a clean, consistent, professional, and presentable style which enhances readability and maintainability.
OS: Windows, Mainframe
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CobolBeautifier
Company: Siber Systems
Desc: CobolBeautifier - Cbl-Beau beautifies (pretty-prints) your Cobol program. CobolBeautifier 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
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COBOL Glossary
Company: MacKinney Systems
Desc: COBOL Glossary is a productivity tool to automate system documentation. COBOL Glossary takes the guesswork out of conversions and maintenance. COBOL Glossary produces system-wide cross-reference lists from your COBOL programs for data names, file names, COPY books, called subroutines, CICS commands, DL/I commands and more. COBOL Glossary also includes a global scan facility to scan an entire library for up to 99 different character strings. COBOL Glossary uses your COBOL programs as input (all programs can be processed in one run), so you know the documentation produced is accurate and up-to-date.
OS: VSE, z/OS
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CobolReporter
Company: Siber Systems
Desc: CobolReporter - Cbl-Report reports the following for a Cobol program: * Data layout. For every data item: level, PIC clause, effective USAGE, length in bytes, byte offset from the 01 level, byte offset from the start of the section. * Line count, lines of code (LOC), token count in the program. * Number of sections, number of paragraphs, number of sentences, number of statements in the program. * Subsystem use (number of statements used): File IO, Sort-Merge, Report Writer, Communication Section, ANSI Accept/Display, Screen Accept/Display. * Inter-program Communication: Program-ID of this program, all entry points in the program all programs called, EXEC subsystems called. * Source Files: copybooks that were found (with their full names), copybooks that were not found, whether Copy Replacing or Replace statements were used.
OS: AIX, Linux, Windows
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case/4/0 - Deutsches
Company: microTOOL GmbH
Desc: case/4/0 ist ein Werkzeug für Systemanalyse und Softwareentwurf, COBOL Reverse Engineering, logische Datenmodellierung, relationales Datenbankdesign und Data Warehouse Modellierung. Es bietet Ihnen alles, was Sie für die erfolgreiche Entwicklung und Modernisierung von datenbankbasierten Systemen brauchen.
OS: Windows
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case/4/0
Company: microTOOL GmbH
Desc: case/4/0 is a tool for software analysis and design, COBOL reverse engineering, data modeling and data warehousing. case/4/0 comes with everything you need for the successful development and modernization of structured software systems.
OS: Windows
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Compuware Program Analyzer
Company: Compuware
Desc: Compuware Program Analyzer helps developers using Compuware products¿Xpediter, Abend-AID and Strobe perform powerful yet easy-to-understand analyses of complex COBOL and PL/I programs through views of the program's structure, data items and logic.
OS: Windows, z/OS
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DCD III
Company: Marble Computer
Desc: This COBOL data correlation and documentation product, DCD III, 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: Mainframe
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DMS Software Reengineering Toolkit
Company: Semantic Designs
Desc: The DMS Software Reengineering Toolkit is a set of tools for automating customized source program analysis, modification or translation or generation of software systems, containing arbitrary mixtures of languages ("domains"). The DMS Software Reengineering Toolkit allows 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
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evolveIT
Company: blackboxIT
Desc: evolveIT is a PC tool that enables analysts and programmers to understand complex COBOL applications. evolveIT models every aspect of an application from the screens that users see down to the manipulation of individual data items deep inside programs. A variety of interactive diagrams, reports and viewers enable applications to be understood, documented, maintained and modernised more effectively.
OS: Windows
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IBM WebSphere ILOG Rules for COBOL
Company: IBM ILOG
Desc: IBM WebSphere ILOG Rules for COBOL allows WebSphere ILOG JRules Business Rule Management System (BRMS) rulesets to be generated into COBOL copybook code for use inside COBOL applications. ILOG Rules for COBOL allows users to author business rules that will be used to generate COBOL code. ILOG Rules for COBOL uses ILOG JRules BRMS capabilities as the base for auditing, versioning and meta data for all the rules that will be used as part of ILOG Rules for COBOL.
OS: z/OS
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KRIS
Company: Asetechs
Desc: KRIS automates the following tasks (for COBOL, SQL, CICS, IMS and C on Mainframe, Linux and Windows): 1. COBOL/C Code inspection and normalization. 2. Applications understanding and assessment. 3. Impact analysis (system wide). 4. Software quality auditing. 5. Repository population. KRIS provides: 1. Static code analysis 2. Control flow and data flow computations 3. 54 Cobol measures collected (see how to interpret Halstead/McCabe metrics) 4. Repository created and populated (MySql) 5. Repository schema fully documented 6. Cobol dead code pruning 7. System wide impact analysis 8. 200+ queries to help auditing the results
OS: MVS, Unix (Linux, Sun), Windows
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LegacyAid
Company: CASEMaker
Desc: LegacyAid lets you quickly 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. You can automatically generate up-to-date project documentation-eliminate the struggle of documenting legacy systems by generating more than 30 types of Format, List, Cross Reference, Long Format Information and System Information documents. Reengineering tools let you revitalize legacy code by finding unused data, exploring referenced copy files, tracing program execution, and more.
OS: Windows
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LogicMiner
Company: BluePhoenix Solutions
Desc: LogicMiner enables organizations to understand, analyze, and recover business logic as a key part of a modernization program. The legacy artifacts that comprise a COBOL business application are extracted, an inventory of the system is created by analyzing all of the source code along with the interrelationships among the COBOL source components (CICS or IMS/DC maps, SQL tables, VSAM or DL/I access) and any other components that are embedded within the various artifacts.
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Logic Mining
Company: blackboxIT
Desc: Logic Mining enables analysts to find the business rules enforced by COBOL code. Logic Mining will guide analysts through finding, interpreting, describing and modelling the abstracted business rules so that they can be re-used in any environment. Logic Mining helps you produce re-useable rules that have real business meaning from your existing systems.
OS: Mainframe
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Modernization Workbench
Company: Micro Focus
Desc: The most comprehensive platform for understanding your application portfolios. Modernization Workbench® provides a "GPS" for the portfolio of applications that power an enterprise. Modernization Workbench offers unmatched diagrams, analytics, and reports for COBOL, PL/I, Java, C#, and other applications. Using Modernization Workbench global IT teams can prioritize and execute development activities that adapt and modernize applications.
OS: Windows
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MoRE (Modular Reverse Engineering)
Company: Interactive Objects Software GmbH
Desc: MoRE is iO's solution toolkit for maintaining and modernizing legacy applications. MoRE comprises methods and tool components targeted at reverse engineering and optionally also encompasses integration with the forward-engineering part of a modernization endeavour. Our modular reverse-engineering suite facilitates the static analysis of legacy applications.
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Prototype Composer
Company: Serena Software
Desc: Serena Prototype Composer makes it possible to simulate how an application will look and function before any code is ever written. Instead of endless text entries, complex data hierarchies, or too technical UML diagrams, Serena Prototype Composer makes it easy for business users and business analysts to collaborate on requirements by building simple, high fidelity prototypes that simulate a working application. Prototype Composer makes it simple to model automated process and activity flows to streamline business processes.
OS: Windows
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RainCode Checker
Company: RainCode
Desc: The RainCode Checker for COBOL provides you with a convenient infrastructure to check automatically for compliance with company-specific or standard coding conventions in your COBOL code. The Checker analyzes the COBOL source files, detects where the coding rules have been violated, and generates a detailed report listing the encountered offences. Based on the RainCode Engine for COBOL's static analysis capabilities, the RainCode Checker for COBOL enables you to verify simple as well a complex coding rules.
OS: Linux, Windows, Unix
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RainCode Engine
Company: RainCode
Desc: The RainCode engine for COBOL is a scriptable source code analysis tool. The RainCode engine for COBOL natively recognizes virtually all COBOL dialects available today. Similary, a pattern-based mechanism can be used to process listing or JCL files where the source code is mixed with various external textual components.
OS: Linux, Windows, Unix
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RainCode Roadmap
Company: RainCode
Desc: The RainCode Roadmap for COBOL produces documentation out of possibly large amounts of COBOL source code automatically, in order to ease maintenance, and, more generally, deliver usable knowledge about existing systems. The RainCode Roadmap for COBOL generates technical COBOL documentation about your applications.
OS: Linux, Windows, Unix
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RefWiz
Company: Axios Products
Desc: RefWiz is a powerful analysis and documentation tool that is helpful for numerous project management and development tasks. RefWiz gathers together, inventories, analyzes and cross-references all related information about batch and online applications into one place, in an easy to access format.
OS: OS/390 V2 (or above) or z/OS
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Re2Spec
Company: Specifik Software
Desc: Re2Spec is an integrated set of tools for documentation, general analysis, domain analysis and ad hoc analysis purposes for the above mentioned systems and tasks. Re2Spec is a tool to automate system documentation for COBOL and PL/1.
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Smart TS xl
Company: Software Engineering of America
Desc: Smart TS xl is a web based, easy to use, lightning fast enterprise asset management software product that gives an organization the ability to discover, manage and relate informational assets from mainframe and distributed systems across the enterprise.
OS: System i, Unix/Linux Windows, z/OS
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Source-Navigator
Company: Source-Navigator Project
Desc: Source-Navigator 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. Source-Navigato is a powerful code analysis and comprehention tool that provides a graphic framework for understanding and reengineering large or complex software projects.
OS: Unix, Windows
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Specialized Analysis and Modification Tools
Company: Semantic Designs
Desc: Semantic Designs offers off-the-shelf software development support tools for a wide variety of programming languages. These tools include code formatter/prettyprinter/beautifiers, code obfuscators, source code comparison tools, hyperlinked cross-references, and testing tools (branch coverage, profiling). Tools include Code Formatters/Obfuscators/Hyperlinked CrossReferences, Source Code Metrics, Source Code Search, Source Code comparison tools (diff), Memory Safety ("buffer overrun") Checking, Dead and Duplicate Code Detection and Removal, Source Code Style Checking tools, Architectural Analysis.
OS: Unix, Windows
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USFlowchart
Company: CyberMetrics
Desc: USFlowchart is a COBOL flow chart and structure chart tool that generates structure charts from cobol source automatically.
OS: Windows
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Visible Analyst
Company: Visible Systems
Desc: Visible Analyst is Strategic Planning, Data Modeling, Business Process Modeling (BPMN), UML Modeling, and Structured Analysis and Design Modeling In a Single Tool. Visible Analyst enables true enterprise application engineering by storing and documenting data, processes, business requirements, and objects that can be shared by application developers throughout an organization.
OS: Windows
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Visustin Flow Chart Generator
Company: Aivosto Oy
Desc: Visustin is an automated flowcharter for software developers and document writers. Save documentation efforts with automatic code visualization. Visustin reverse engineers your source code into high-quality flow charts or UML Activity Diagrams. Visustin generates flow charts from code written in several COBOL dialects.
OS: Windows
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VS/Cobol Analyzer
Company: MacKinney Systems
Desc: VS/Cobol Analyzer examines program libraries and identifies OS/VS COBOL programs. You can use VS/Cobol Analyzer to help answer questions like "How many OS/VS COBOL programs do we have?", "Would it be less expensive to convert our programs manually or run MacKinney's VS/Cobol Interpreter?"
OS: VSE, z/OS
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Xpediter
Company: Compuware
Desc: Xpediter allows mainframe Debugging and analysis. Xpediter is an advanced analysis tool that helps developers understand, analyze, segment, build, test and extend application development.
OS: Windows, z/OS
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XREFPLUS
Company: Software Engineering Of America
Desc: XREFplus is a high-performance, flexible, and easy-to-use JCL and procedure documentation / cross-reference utility. XREFplus 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
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