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Upgrading COBOL to the IBM Language Environment

COBOL conversion to the IBM Language Environment (LE) is an important issue for organizations with large numbers of legacy COBOL applications. COBOL is still the most commonly used language for business applications and is currently running around 70% of the world's business applications on the mainframe. Many of these applications are not LE compliant. This causes a problem when your organization has decided to upgrade the mainframe—non-LE applications will not run. Faced with this kind of modernization project, the total cost of ownership (TCO) increases. You need an efficient and cost-effective path to upgrade to COBOL LE.

Our automated solution for COBOL LE conversion can help you achieve this goal for applications written in COBOL, PL/1, Assembler, "C", and FORTRAN. This tool facilitates upgrading COBOL applications to LE standards—including the testing and implementation of the converted programs and transactions.

Success Story

Safeway completes COBOL conversion using BluePhoenix automated solution

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Technical Information

COBOL Language Environment Upgrade
The IBM Language Environment (LE) is an integrated run-time library used by COBOL, PL/I, Assembler, C++, and FORTRAN.

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