Die Wartung und Weiterentwicklung gewachsener COBOL Anwendungen stellt viele Organisationen vor große Herausforderungen. Mit CodeRevive for COBOL wurde eine Lösung entwickelt, die Transparenz schafft und den Zugang zu komplexen Codebasen deutlich erleichtert. Im Video werden aktuelle Neuerungen von CodeRevive vorgestellt. Dazu gehört eine graphbasierte Analyse der gesamten COBOL Landschaft mit Programmen, Paragraphen, Copybooks und Abhängigkeiten,…
Why Generating Unit Test Cases is Important In 1996, the Ariane 5 rocket exploded just 37 seconds after launch. The cause? A single line of unhandled code that wasn’t properly tested. Cost: $440 million and years of work, gone in an instant. Your COBOL programs might not launch rockets, but they do something just as…
Those who read my earlier blog article on accessing CICS programs via Liberty from WebServices, remember that I was announcing this article. So, let’s dive into it. Integrating COBOL batch programs with modern Java applications running in CICS is a common requirement in enterprise mainframe environments. The External Call Interface (EXCI) provides the bridge, allowing…
Introduction In IBM CICS, the integrated WebSphere Liberty profile provides a modern, lightweight runtime for Java applications.If your goal is to expose CICS business logic through SOAP without modifying existing programs, a clean approach is to wrap only those programs that can be called via EXEC CICS LINK from Java. With this method, the Liberty…
This page explains how to enhance Aider for mainframe development by integrating COBOL parsing and analysis. What is Aider ? Aider is an open-source (Apache-2.0 license) coding assistant that you use directly from your terminal. It connects with both licensed and open-source large language models (llm) to help you write, edit, and improve your code.…
Interestingly, Gradle found two tasks, even though we only ran one. Let’s ask Gradle about it by showing us the task dependencies:
COBOL has long been the backbone of many legacy mainframe systems, but modern software development practices – like automated testing and continuous integration – are reshaping how we maintain and enhance these critical systems. Enter COBOL Check, an open-source unit testing framework designed specifically for COBOL by the Open Mainframe Project. This blog post explores…
In this comprehensive exploration, we delve into the transformative impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) across the entire DevOps cycle, from initial planning through to operation and monitoring. We uncover how these cutting-edge technologies not only streamline and optimize each phase but also foster a more collaborative, efficient, and innovative development…
Eine spannende Herausforderung beim Modernisierung von Host-Anwendungen ist das Testen der modernisierten Anwendung unter Last. Für Web-Interfaces gibt es zahlreiche Möglichkeiten mit Lasttreibern zu arbeiten. Spezieller ist der Fall, wenn die Anwendung nach wie vor 3270-Masken anbietet, deren Performance unter Last ebenfalls verprobt werden muss. Im Folgenden möchte ich eine tolle Möglichkeit vorstellen, wie man…