COBOL Migration Services

When vendors sundown machines that power an organization's COBOL business applications, migration to open systems platforms such as Windows and UNIX offers a low risk approach to releasing the value in these existing applications. Micro Focus COBOL is the recognized standard for all Windows, UNIX and Linux platforms and through our partners, 100s of organizations have successfully migrated their applications to Micro Focus COBOL on these platforms.

The Micro Focus Migration and Transformation Consortium


The Micro Focus Migration and Transformation Consortium (MTC) is a global coalition of companies who specialize in the renewal of COBOL applications through migration and transformation using a combination of tested tools and recognized expertise.

Platform Migrations
These summary tables contain examples of various mission critical COBOL applications successfully migrated from proprietary platforms such as Unisys A Series, Unisys 2200, ICL VME, DG MV, Bull DPS/7, Bull DPS/8, Wang, IBM MVS, IBM DOS/VSE, IBM AS/400, HP 3000, Tandem, BS2000, NCR and DEC VMS. Please contact Micro Focus for the source and target platform of interest to you.

Software Migrations 
These summary tables contain examples of organizations that have broken free from the constraints of proprietary languages and 4GLs like ADA, Application Master, CoolGEN, CSP, Easytrieve, IDEAL, LINC, Mantis, MetaCOBOL, Natural, PACBASE, PL/I, Resource, RPG and Telon or migrated from proprietary databases ADABAS, CAFS, Datacom, DMSII, IDMS, IDMS-X, IDS2, IMS, PACE, ResponseR or SUPRA to relational dabases like SQL Server, UDB and Oracle.

Migration White Papers
Select this link to access the Micro Focus Migration specific white papers

Further Information


Send your specific migration topics of interest to: migrations@microfocus.com

Please include your location (Town, Country), your role in the migration project (external consultant, employee, etc), and any relevant background information.