extend

extend provides increased portability with support for all major Windows, UNIX and Linux platforms and delivers improved interoperability with Java, C, COM and .NET. It enables developers to build applications that deliver competitive advantage, faster, by rapidly implementing business requirements. Data access and decision support is improved by connecting COBOL applications to RDMS and making COBOL data available to standard Business Intelligence and reporting tools. Graphical interface design capabilities deliver rich user interfaces using COBOL syntax extensions.

The extend suite comprises a range of tools to aid development, provide access to data both to and from COBOL and Web Services.

Discover what's new in the latest versions of extend: 

 What's new in extend 9
 What's new in extend 9.1

This product includes software developed by the University of California, Berkeley and its contributors. 

ACUCOBOL-GT® is an open systems COBOL compiler and runtime system. An advanced COBOL development and deployment system, ACUCOBOL-GT helps reduce maintenance time and cost, and increase application modernization and business value.

Customer Success: Chyun Huei Health Tech used ACUCOBOL-GT to consolidate Taiwan Department of Health’s IT across 28 hospitals, saving $17.2m in application development costs and another $1.7m in maintenance fees.

AcuBench®, the IDE for ACUCOBOL-GT accelerates COBOL development and proficiency. By offering a a graphical interface to all the tools in the ACUCOBOL-GT development system and specialized code generation tools, AcuBench helps new developers learn COBOL faster and increases the productivity of experienced developers.

AcuConnect® is a COBOL client/server solution that can be deployed in a distributed processing architecture or in a thin client architecture.

AcuServer® is a distributed file server providing secure and rapid access to Vision, sequential, relative, and object files on remote server machines. 

Acu4GL® provides COBOL data access to Relational Database Management Systems, giving organizations the power and flexibility of an RDBMS without having to abandon their investment in COBOL by providing seamless access between COBOL and Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, ODBC, and DB2 databases.

AcuXDBC® provides ODBC/JDBC access to COBOL data, providing a simple solution to the challenges of extracting valuable data held in COBOL systems.  By exposing locked data to industry standard ODBC and JDBC interfaces, standard business intelligence applications such as Microsoft Excel, SAP Business Objects, can access the data.

AcuSQL® is a simple, cost-effective solution for IT organizations that want to use embedded SQL statements in their COBOL programs to access SQL data sources.

Xcentrisity® Business Information Server (BIS) is a web server environment that manages application sessions and makes them available via any web browser, or other web user agent that is granted access to the BIS server.

Xcentrisity BIS helps IT organizations to distribute their applications across platforms, operating systems and Internet with a minimum of programming and maintenance. It gives application developers the capability to build Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) applications that incorporate legacy business data and logic, freely mixed with the latest web languages and tools.

Building on the power of XML as the foundation of connectivity, together with industry standard web servers such as Microsoft IIS and Apache, BIS offers application developers a unique opportunity to build state-of-the-art browser-based Web Applications or SOAP-based Web Services comprising COBOL programs and COBOL data files and databases.

Customer Success:

Using Xcentrisity BIS, Siedlungswerk was able to migrate its character-oriented application to a web application to take advantage of new technologies. 

Xcentrisity enabled tax credit research and retrieval experts, M.A.R.S STOUT quickly develop a true Web application built on RM/COBOL, ensuring a high level of release-to-release integrity.

Casino and gaming software provider, Table Trac needed to modernize its application portfolio and prepare to move into future technologies, while preserving intellectual property and business logic. Xcentrisity BIS proved to be the key.