Information for System Integrators

To find out more about how the Micro Focus COBOL Technology can help you provide increased choice, added value and improved service levels for your customers 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 can offer that you can utilize within your solutions to make them even more valuable, flexible and competitive.  
  • Our Leverage and Extend solution can help you modernize and maintain applications that run on IBM z/OS mainframes more effectively to gain new clients or better service existing customers where you have outsourced application maintenance  
  • Our Application Migration and Modernizaition solution can help you migrate existing applications from high cost platforms to contemporary platforms and modernize them to provide innovation and flexibility that your competitors can not deliver effectively.  
  • 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 deployment 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