Information for Public Sector Agencies

To find out more about how the Micro Focus COBOL Technology can help you respond to the demands comply with stricter governance while reducing costs but improving public services, here are some suggestions

  • Browse the information within the Next Steps section to ensure you have a complete picture of how and when COBOL re-use makes sense.    
  • Have a look at the information on our other solutions to understand the complete breadth of capabilities Micro Focus provides that can help you deliver on new requirements faster while reducing annual expenditure    
  • Our Leverage and Extend solution can help you modernize and maintain any applications that are running on IBM z/OS mainframes much more effectively to enable you to satisfy new demands up to 50% faster than you can today while making information more accessible to the public over the internet.    
  • Our Application Modernization solutions can help you migrate and modernize existing applications from high cost platforms to contemporary platforms to reduce annual expenditure, de-centralize appropriate batch processes and make current and historical information more accessible.    
  • If you are an architecture, technology or development specialist you may find it useful to review the data sheets or white papers related to the different Micro Focus products    

The following table identifies the Micro Focus development tools according to where the development is done and the target application deployment:

Platform for Development

 

For Deployment on...

 
 

Windows

Unix or Linux

IBM z/OS

Windows

Net Express

Studio for COBOL Developers

 Mainframe Express Enterprise Edition

UNIX or Linux

 Studio for COBOL Developers

 Server Express

N/A



The following table identifies the Micro Focus deployent products according to the platform and deployment architecture:

Platform for Deployment

 

Type of Deployment

 
 

Deploying within .NET

Open platform deployment

Deploying COBOL Web services or Java/COBOL transactions

Windows

Server for .NET

Server for COBOL

 Server for SOA

UNIX or Linux

 N/A

Server for COBOL

 Server for SOA