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References to COBOL white papers, covering a variety of COBOL programming topics, including COBOL mainframe migration, Java, security, web services, .net, XML, and other COBOL topics. |
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Alchemy Solutions
NetCOBOL legacy modernization case studies. |
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Canam Software
This COBOL white paper covers XML-enabling of enterprise COBOL systems. |
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Center for Technology in Government
University at Albany / SUNY
This COBOL white paper discusses linking legacy systems and their attached databases to new web-based applications and distributed data. |
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Computer Associates
CA's COBOL white papers cover various COBOL software products, technologies, trends, and solutions. |
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Compuware
This is a collection of COBOL white papers, covering software quality, offshore outsourcing, data privacy compliance in the application testing environment, and performance analysis of java-based enterprise applications. |
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Cratos Technology Solutions
CRATOS has developed a "Migration Process" that includes templates, extracts, balancing tools, test plans... and is a member of the Mainframe Migration Alliance. |
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Hewlett-Packard
These are COBOL white papers on the HP e3000, covering HP e3000 transition and other topics. |
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LegacyJ
LegacyJ's COBOL white papers provide helpful insights and methodologies, covering topics such as COBOL web services, COBOL CICS, and future of COBOL. |
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IBM
Several Share presentations are provided, covering COBOL Java, COBOL XML, performance, COBOL migrations, and other topics. |
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IONA Technologies
IONA's COBOL white papers address their products, CORBA, mainframe technology, service oriented architecture, web services, and vertical markets. |
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Micro Focus
Micro Focus has over 35 COBOL white papers covering various topics, including integration, deployment, maintenance, migration and COBOL programming. |
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MigrationWare
Here is a list of white papers covering file compare, file restructure, ICL VME migration, Micro Focus ADABAS compatiability option, Micro Focus IDMS compatiability option, and more. |
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PIR Group
This document describes a COBOL migration methodology. |
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Redvers Consulting Limited
This is a product summary of Redvers COBOL XML Interface. |
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ScreenJet
This is ScreenJet's VPLUS Migration White Paper (pdf download). |
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SoftwareMining
This document summarizes migration of legacy COBOL code to a distributed computing environment and other potential benefits available from SoftwareMining's Transformation Technologies & Services. |
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Transoft
The purpose and importance of the Pathfinder Process is to ensure that both the client and Transoft understand what assets the applications consist of; that the key considerations are clear, and to plan for all aspects of the migration and implementation. |
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Veryant
Veryant, isCOBOL customer case studies. |
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ZDnet
ZDNet IT library of technical COBOL white papers cover topics such as COBOL .NET Framework, COBOL to Java, Fujitsu COBOL, Micro Focus COBOL, Web Services, and more. |
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Modernizing COBOL with business rules
This is a discussion on modernizing COBOL Code with business rules. |
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COBOL Programming Design Patterns, Introduction to COBOL Batch Processing
This is a discussion on COBOL batch processing. |
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COBOL Unicode Support
It covers the support for Unicode available with Enterprise COBOL for z/OS and OS/390 Version 3. |
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Developing CICS COBOL programs using WebSphere Studio Enterprise Developer
This article is a basic "cheat-sheet" for those who are new to WebSphere Studio Enterprise Developer and want to use it to write Enterprise COBOL CICS mainframe applications. |
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Developing Mixed Visual Basic COBOL Applications
This paper discusses COBOL and Visual Basic and the benefits of combining the two languages to develop mixed Visual Basic COBOL applications. |
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iSeries Application Modernization - An Update
This paper reviews some of the key modernization strategies in the iSeries marketplace. |
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Positioning WebSphere Development Studio for iSeries
This document describes the WebSphere Development Studio for iSeries |
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Seizing New Opportunities to Control Software Maintenance Costs
By focusing test efforts on the highest risk areas of an application, and then guiding developers and testers to increase test coverage of those areas, you can make the most of the test phase, delivering higher quality software more quickly. |
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Simplifying the development of enterprise scale e-business applications
This COBOL white paper discusses the critical Web application development needs of an enterprise and explains how an integrated development environment can simplify the development of e-business solutions and associated Web applications. |
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Web-enabling COBOL
This is an overview discussing web-enabling COBOL. |
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WebSphere Development Studio for iSeries
This document describes the consolidation of all the key iSeries server development tools, both host and workstation, traditional and new, into one convenient, integrated, and attractively-priced iSeries offering. |
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21st Century Testing With Computer Associates
This COBOL white paper describes the issues involved in automating testing of mainframe applications and recommends testing strategies to help you accelerate software deployment while ensuring that your applications meet your organization s business needs. |
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Beware of SQL (Structured Query Language)
To those who are looking for SQL (Structured Query Language) to solve their COBOL maintenance problem, I'm sorry to say, "you are heading 180 degrees in the wrong direction." |
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COBOL Changes: The Big Picture
A COBOL white paper that describes the recent COBOL compiler versions and major new features in the COBOL language. |
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COBOL Costly Judgement Errors
The first judgement error, from which all other errors stemmed, was for our Software Industry to reject the committee's vision and intent by having COBOL programmers destroying the readability/understandability of the coding by flooding the their coding with abbreviations. |
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COBOL Modernization Solutions
This position paper describes Acucorp's extend suite of technologies, which modernizes and enhances proven COBOL applications on Itanium2-based HP Integrity servers. |
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COBOL Obfuscator
This is a white paper on protecting the intellectual property in COBOL source code. |
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Don't Give Up On COBOL!
Don't give up on COBOL before you at least try writing one computer software program as intended and envisioned by the prestigious COBOL committee. |
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Enterprise COBOL: A Tool for Growth
COBOL Changes - Big Picture. |
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Enterprise COBOL: Very Short Presentations
A set of short (6-15 pages) presentations for beginners in Enterprise COBOL and another set for experienced IBM COBOL programmers who want to get a quick update on the changes |
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Future of COBOL
This article is an overview discussing the future of COBOL. |
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Hopefully Not Another Thirty Years
For over thirty years, data processing management has supported a debilitating and counter productive approach to programming productivity in general and programming maintenance in particular. |
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Letter to the COBOL Community
This is a letter about what we want to say about the COBOL programming language and the community. |
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Ludicrous
Ludicrous is the best description of our Software Industries handling of Programming Productivity since COBOL came on the scene 50 years ago. |
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Managing Offshore Development and Maintenance Projects
Learn how you can significantly minimize the risks and costs associated with offshore outsourcing. |
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The Future of the Mainframe
Technology writer Stewart Alsop predicted in 1991 that the last mainframe would be unplugged in 1996. The prediction did not come true and the mainframe powered into the 21 century. |
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Wake Up and Smell the Roses
This COBOL article is about how COBOL programs written have not followed what the committee that created COBOL envisioned. |
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Web-based Applications and/or Networked Legacy Systems
This COBOL white paper discusses linking legacy systems and their attached databases to new web-based applications and distributed data. |
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What Does The Future Hold For COBOL
For COBOL to have the tremendous future it's capable of, we must "Go back to the future." |
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COBOL and Java Data Types
It shows the COBOL data type that corresponds to each Java primitive type. |
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COBOL Calling Java
This LegacyJ program sample illustrates a COBOL program calling java. |
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COBOL vs. Java - Position Paper
It describes how Java provides a standard set of graphical interface tools while COBOL has traditionally been oriented to character. |
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Consolidation with COBOL and Java
This COBOL Java white paper discusses the topic of how a business with both Traditional and Modern technologies, COBOL and Java, can simplify its development and deployment landscapes. |
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Selecting COBOL for Java and Web
This LegacyJ COBOL white paper provides guidelines for selecting a COBOL web solution. |
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Using Java and COBOL Together
It introduces the different ways that Java and COBOL applications can call each other. |
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CICS to Application Server
This white paper provides the guidelines for hand migration of COBOL CICS application without the use of the LegacyJ Transaction Platform. |
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Cloud Compiling - Case Studies
Fortune 100 Company Saves $100,000 Annually with Centralized Mainframe Licensing. |
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COBOL Migration Methodology
This white paper describes a COBOL migration methodology. |
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HP e3000 Application Migration & Modernization
With the HP e3000 end-of-life announcement, not only does your IT management have its pressing new business requirements to consider, but also how to get off the HP e3000 platform. |
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hp e3000 solution transition advisor compilers and user interface and white paper
This is the third of a series of COBOL white papers from Hewlett-Packard, providing e3000 customers with a transition process roadmap to assess, analyze, select and manage the appropriate transition strategy for their HP e3000 solutions. |
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ICL Mainframe Application Understanding, Migration & Modernisation
Many IT departments are currently considering ways of either improving the operation of their ICL VME systems and/or replacing them with different hardware and more standard operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows, UNIX and Linux. |
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Legacy Modernization White Papers
NetCOBOL white papers. |
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Mainframe Migration Alliance
The alliance provides a framework for members to collaborate on marketing activities related to the migration of applications from the mainframes to Windows server system. |
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Migrating to COBOL Compilers under LE
This Share presentation provides hints and tips on easing your migration to COBOL and Language Environment (formerly named COBOL370 and LE/370). |
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Migration from ICL Mainframe to Open Systems
Transoft opens Windows for Paymaster to reduce costs with migration from ICL mainframe. |
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Migration Pathfinder Process
The purpose and importance of the Pathfinder Process is to ensure that both the client and Transoft understand what assets the applications consist of; that the key considerations are clear, and to plan for all aspects of the migration and implementation. |
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OpenVMS Application Migration and Modernization
The options for moving off OpenVMS are application replacement, either through a package implementation or re-development, or application migration. |
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Platform Migration
This is a presentation on platform migration by Cratos Technology Solutions. |
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VPLUS Migration White Paper
This COBOL white paper discusses migration from VPLUS. |
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Why Migrate? The Return on Investment
This COBOL white paper summarises the migration of legacy COBOL code to a distributed computing environment and other potential benefits available from SoftwareMining's Transformation Technologies & Services. |
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Application Development Framework Extending COBOL with .Net
This whitepaper sets out the complexity of OO COBOL in the Microsoft .Net environment and describes a solution to (mainframe) developers for gaining proficiency in development of .Net applications without the fuzz of the over one year learning curve Gartner describes. |
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COBOL for Microsoft .NET Framework
This COBOL white paper discusses why COBOL and .NET are strong partners and explains how Fujitsu COBOL has been integrated into the .NET |
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Guidelines for Migrating ASCII (ACP) COBOL Code to Unicode with NetCOBOL for .NET
This COBOL white paper explains the issues that you may encounter when bringing COBOL code that has been working in an ASCII (or ANSI Code Page) environment to the Unicode environment of Net COBOL for .NET. |
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Moving your COBOL assets to Microsoft .NET
This COBOL white paper outlines the options available on the market and discusses a new solution - Fujitsu Software's Net COBOL for .NET - and its approach to moving COBOL assets over to Microsoft's .NET platform. |
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Application Servers and COBOL
This COBOL white paper covers enabling COBOL applications for Web Services the business initiative. |
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Developing XML web services using EGL components
This paper discusses both how to create a Web service using EGL programs and how to deploy a Web service to WebSphere Application Server for z/OS. |
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Incorporating Mainframe Systems in Service-Oriented Architecture
This white paper provides a simple to use but technically sophisticated way of enabling a web service on a CICS system AND then managing its use within an SOA Infrastructure. |
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Automated Document Level XML-enabling of Enterprise COBOL Systems
This COBOL white paper is about automated document level XML-enabling of IBM COBOL systems. |
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COBOL XML Interface
This is a product summary of Redvers COBOL XML Interface. |
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XML, COBOL, and Application Modernization
This presentation describes IBM's XML tools in detail and will demonstrate that effective leveraging of existing COBOL assets and skills can contribute to measurable productivity gains while providing functionality essential to a modern business application. |
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XML for the Enterprise - Providing a XML Interface to a CICS Application
This COBOL white paper describes how IBM WebSphere Studio Enterprise Developer (WSED) tools help you in modernizing your Enterprise assets and adapting them to process and produce XML messages. |
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Cobol on the Web May Not Be as Safe
This is an article that discusses how middleware may compromise security mechanisms inherent in Cobol and mainframe access controls. |
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IBM Iseries As 400 Cobol Security
Here are references to several white papers that address security related to IBM iSeries. |
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Making External Security Interface calls from C and COBOL Programs
You can make ESI calls from a C or COBOL Client application to verify or change passwords for a user ID known to an external security manager on a CICS server. |
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Selecting COBOL for Java and Web
This is a LegacyJ whitepaper that discuses Java security features. |
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COBOL language vulnerabilities
This is a discussion on language issues in secure coding. |
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Protect the Intellectual Property in your COBOL Source Code with the Redvers Cloaking Device
This paper discusses security, intellectual property protection and privacy. |
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Conversion and Data Security
This paper presents data security issues that should be addressed during a conversion. |
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Mainframe security changes as Web services arrive
This article addresses mainframe security related to Web services. |
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