Business rules contained in large-scale COBOL applications are at risk. Before any changes are made to these mission-critical applications, a thorough COBOL analysis should be performed to safeguard business rules - they are the building blocks of the application's functionality and thereby support the ongoing business operations of the organization.
COBOL Analysis and UnderstandingIT organizations need the ability to analyze and recover these business rules and logic in order to reduce current maintenance costs and modernize their legacy systems for today's technologies. COBOL business applications create specific challenges such as code maintenance, the need for scarce COBOL resources, and costly mainframe MIPS. A critical first step is a thorough COBOL analysis of the entire IT infrastructure.
The LogicMiner Approach