70% of the world's data is processed by COBOL
The average American interacts with a COBOL program 13 times a day
The average American interacts with a COBOL program 13 times a day
| 55 | average age of a COBOL programmer |
| 70% | of universities surveyed say they don’t include COBOL in Curriculum |
| 18 | COBOl rank in TIOBI Index of popular programming languages |
| 70% | of the transaction systems around the world run on Cobol (Gartner report) |
| 200 | billion lines of COBOL code in use (Microfocus report) |
| 1.5 | billion lines of new COBOL code are added to live systems every year |
It is hard to find new people with Cobol knowledge. Cobol training for non-Cobol programmers are expensive and adds additional time till the new employees become productive.
Cobol compiler needs to be licensed, which is significant part of license costs.
Migrating to new HW is risky and the current compiler might not even support, so the compiler might needs to be upgraded, which creates additional risk.
Convert the legacy source codes to another, proven, more supported programming language.
How could we migrate our code base from Cobol to C?
I have a lot of Cobol programmers with knowledge in our current solution. How will the conversion affect my team? How much training do I need to give them or do I need to hire C developers to build up a new team?
I don’t know what will happen with the functionality and performance?
My developers said it is risky, because C uses different data types, syntaxes and if we migrate, the comments in the code will also be lost.
The converted source codes resembles the Cobol syntax, so minimal training is required for COBOL programmers, while new C programmers can join the team in parallel. The program flow, data structures and comments remain as is.
After the conversion, the same functionality is assured running with better performance (based on the projects we have delivered so far).
The conversion is modular. United Consult can convert part of the solution, which then can integrated to the rest of the legacy code, opens the possibility for a PoC/Pilot and testing.
United Consult ensures that your intellectual property (business logic) is secured. Using secure channels for communication and limiting the personals accessing the code.
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| Env Setup | Convert Code | |
| Deliver C | ||
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| 20% performance improvement | |
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Cutting license costs & Cutting SW maintenance and development costs |
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| Migration to modern platforms |
United Consult converted Cobol source codes to C source codes for enterprises in the last 7 years. All projects were successful, our part delivered on time without major incidents or issues. The solutions are still in production since the conversion.
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Converted 700k LOCs: Billing and AR systems to C, saving significant license costs |
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Converted 1m LOCs: Full Billing and Customer Care system to be able to migrate into Linux |
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Converted 700k LOCs: COBOL codes of Billing and AR systems to C |
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Converted 1,5 m LOCs: Billing and AR, Rater, AC |
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