Solutions
Designed for every modernization journey.
Built to adapt and evolve.
Run anywhere
MOVE enables COBOL applications to integrate into modern environments without rewriting or disruption.
This structured and flexible approach preserves their proven business logic while ensuring seamless integration into tomorrow’s infrastructures — providing a stable foundation for continuous transformation.
Through its three dimensions — HOST, RETHINK, and OPERATE — MOVE establishes a governed and continuous modernization model. It replaces the idea of one-time migration with a lasting discipline: a governed, measurable, and adaptive evolution where stability and agility coexist — turning modernization into an ongoing, mastered journey.
Host
Reliable foundations
The first stage of MOVE is Host. Whether rehosting to Linux, Windows, or Cloud, or undertaking a deeper migration of your solution stack, Host creates a stable and predictable foundation. The objective is continuity: minimize change, reduce risk, and ensure your applications run smoothly on their new environment — transparent for users, and reassuring for IT leaders.
Different Paths to Hosting
Every hosting project begins with a few key questions:
- What platform is the application running on today?
- Does the current architecture come from a mainframe or from an open system?
- Can the existing solution stack be replicated as-is on the target?
- Should the migration reproduce the current environment, or establish a new stack?
The answers drive the project in two main directions:
Rehosting
The lowest-cost and lowest-risk path. Applications are moved with minimal changes, reducing development, documentation, and training effort. Rehosting is designed to be transparent for end-users and stable for IT.
Extended Migration
A more ambitious path that may replace or modernize certain components of the solution stack. Depending on the profile of the application, this could mean simplifying transaction management, consolidating file and database layers, or preparing the architecture for modular or service-oriented approaches.
A Structured Methodology: The Migration Protocol
To secure this critical stage, CobolCloud applies its Migration Protocol - a structured framework that evaluates application scope, analyzes technical constraints, identifies compatibility points, and guides recompilation and transition. This step-by-step methodology ensures migrations are predictable, controlled, and transparent, giving organizations a clear view of risks and required adaptations before execution.
Compatibility and Beyond
CobolCloud is engineered for broad compatibility across COBOL dialects and traditional enterprise components such as databases, file systems, and transaction managers.
But compatibility does not stop at legacy stacks. Thanks to its multi-directional API, CobolCloud also integrates with:
- Web services and RESTful APIs.
- Event-driven and streaming platforms.
- Container orchestration frameworks (Kubernetes, OpenShift).
- CI/CD pipelines and DevOps toolchains.
- Cloud-native services that continue to evolve.
And if the technologies in mind are not listed here, CobolCloud's modular design ensures they can be taken into account - preserving continuity while embracing innovation.
Testing and Validation
To support this process, CobolCloud provides access to a containerized environment where applications can be compiled, executed, and tested with the CobolCloud compiler and runtime. This makes it possible to refine the solution stack, test migration scenarios safely, and confirm successful operation on the chosen target platform - whether Cloud, Linux, or Windows.
Host is the safeguard stage: risk reduced, costs known, and continuity preserved. It is the prerequisite to any future Rethink and the guarantee that COBOL applications are immediately ready to Operate in modern environments. With Host, organizations secure not only a migration, but a foundation for decades of stability and evolution.
Rethink
Modernization Without Disruption
Once securely hosted, COBOL applications can be reimagined in the broader landscape of Cloud and hybrid IT. With CobolCloud, modernization does not mean demolition, but integration and reinvention. Applications can evolve incrementally:
- Dynamic provisioning of physical resources.
- Incorporating web services and APIs.
- Interconnecting COBOL business rules with modern frameworks.
- Re-engineering modules to match native Cloud architectures.
Instead of abrupt and risky all-or-nothing migrations, CobolCloud promotes calm, continuous, and ambitious modernization — often using patterns like the Strangler Fig, which allows new modules to coexist with legacy ones. The result: your COBOL applications are not constrained, but extended — blowing up old borders and opening infinite possibilities.
Beyond the Limits of Modernization
Rethink is not confined to upgrading within the old boundaries. It means reconsidering applications with a holistic perspective: acknowledging their heritage, aligning with the enterprise's strategic vision, and embedding them into architectures designed for the future.
With Rethink, COBOL applications can:
- Be decomposed into services or microservices, exposing business rules through APIs.
- Interconnect with cloud-native runtimes, event-driven workflows, and distributed frameworks.
- Integrate seamlessly with third-party or open-source solutions to extend capabilities.
- Serve as trusted building blocks within ambitious, hybrid, or multi-cloud architectures.
Shaping New Architectures
Rethink empowers enterprises to progressively redesign their applications into modular, interoperable components. This modularization makes them compatible with native Cloud standards, while preserving the business logic that remains central to continuity.
At the core of this stage stand the Technical Hubs 2.0. They provide the most reliable foundation for Rethink - ensuring software continuity, autonomy, and freedom from vendor lock-in. By securing the code base, they make it possible to engage in ambitious transformations calmly, with confidence that critical business rules will remain transparent and reusable.
Working Together
CobolCloud works closely with its partners and customers to define the most relevant paths for each context. Whether the objective is incremental service exposure, adoption of containerized microservices, or a bold re-architecture, Rethink provides the flexibility to move forward at the right pace - always on solid ground.
Operate
Modern Execution, Continuous Control
Operate brings COBOL fully into the world of modern operations. Running in the Cloud or on open servers means they can now:
- Integrate into CI/CD pipelines for continuous delivery.
- Benefit from automated testing and deployment.
- Feed application events into monitoring tools for predictive maintenance.
- Participate in dynamic resource provisioning and security strategies.
At the center is the CobolCloud runtime, which orchestrates application execution and acts as the glue between COBOL and the rest of the system. Its unique position provides low-level insights unavailable anywhere else, enabling organizations to anticipate issues before they occur. Operate turns COBOL from a black box into a transparent, observable, and proactive component of your IT ecosystem.
Beyond Operations: Full Observability
Traditional COBOL systems were often black boxes. With CobolCloud, this changes. Through the CobolCloud Runtime and the Dynamic Profiler, execution data can be collected at an unmatched level of detail - logs, metrics, and traces that expose how modules behave in real conditions. These insights can be streamed into enterprise observability frameworks, where logs, metrics, and traces from COBOL run side by side with those of other workloads, ensuring unified monitoring and analysis across the IT landscape.
This approach ensures:
- Transparency: COBOL is no longer opaque; its behavior is measurable.
- Integration: data flows into the same dashboards used for Java, C#, or cloud-native apps.
- Intelligence: combined with AIOps tools, these insights support anomaly detection, predictive alerts, and continuous optimization.
Practices for the Modern Enterprise
Operate aligns COBOL with the best practices of modern IT operations:
- Dynamic provisioning of resources to match workload variations.
- Automated pipelines for deployment and testing, integrated with enterprise DevOps.
- Continuous monitoring and observability for proactive detection of risks.
- Predictive maintenance strategies, where incidents can be prevented before they impact operations.
- Comprehensive security integration, ensuring compliance and resilience in critical environments.
Built for Cooperation
Operate is designed to cooperate. CobolCloud does not replace existing observability platforms, it amplifies them - ensuring COBOL modules are fully represented in hybrid or multi-cloud operational strategies.
Technical Hubs 2.0 form the backbone of this approach: not only do they secure continuity, but they also act as dedicated laboratories, refining how execution data is exchanged with market-leading platforms and ensuring COBOL workloads integrate smoothly into modern operational ecosystems.
Working Together
CobolCloud partners with leading providers of monitoring and observability to ensure customers can rely on proven, certified solutions. Whether the objective is stability, compliance, predictive insights, or integration with AI-powered observability, Operate provides the bridge - making COBOL applications observable, governable, and future-proof.
Operate with autonomy
MASTER empowers organizations to gain real autonomy through a guided, transparent model. With our Managed Open Source approach and Technical Hubs 2.0, teams learn, rebuild, and evolve CobolCloud systems with confidence — ensuring their independence remains structured, sustainable, and secure.
A Technical Hub 2.0 is a structured environment — both organizational and technical — where teams progressively gain mastery over CobolCloud software and its source code, building the knowledge to secure and operate their own COBOL applications independently. Each Hub combines shared tools, governed practices, and validated builds to ensure autonomy develops within a safe and transparent framework.
A Technical Hub 2.0 can be set up internally or operated via a trusted third party. In both cases, it follows the same structured path to autonomy, under CobolCloud’s moderation and validation.
MASTER introduces a new path beyond the binary world of proprietary lock-in and unmanaged open source. With our Managed Open Source model, source code is not only made available but also structured, studied, and continuously improved by you — within a secure and validated framework.
Level 1
Factory Activation
The journey begins with the installation of a Technical Hub 2.0, either inside the organization or through a partner. Interconnected with CobolCloud, the Hub is both a local mirror and a learning ground. At this level, teams gain:
- An overview of the architecture of a CobolCloud distribution.
- Visibility into the different software modules that compose it.
- The capability to rebuild a distribution using CobolCloud’s official tools and methods.
CobolCloud remains the ultimate moderator and validator, ensuring every rebuild is consistent and secure. This first level provides assurance: the environment can always be reinstalled and kept coherent — independently, but never in isolation.
Level 1 is more than an installation. It is the activation of a complete replica of the CobolCloud software factory, secured and connected for perfect guidance by the CobolCloud technical teams. Within this environment, teams gain practical experience in the professional standards of software construction and distribution — while remaining consistently aligned with the broader CobolCloud ecosystem.
Understanding the Architecture
The journey begins with an overview of how each CobolCloud software is architected. Teams discover how the various source modules — compiler, runtime, SQL pre-compiler, sort utilities, workbench (IDE), and more — are organized in the client or partner repository. This visibility into the modular structure ensures that the full logic of the distribution is not a black box but a transparent, documented system.
Learning the Build Process
From there, the focus moves to the processes that transform these modules into a finished product. Teams learn how to:
- Follow the preparation phases.
- Understand and execute the compilation scripts for each component.
- Assemble them into coherent, tested software distributions.
Testing and Quality Assurance
No distribution is complete without validation. Level 1 includes the systematic execution of automated non-regression tests, ensuring that each rebuild matches the quality and reliability standards defined by CobolCloud. Teams also learn when and why a version number is incremented, and how quality gates secure each release.
Release Notes and Publication
Beyond the build itself, Level 1 also introduces the discipline of release management. With CobolCloud’s tooling (including AI-assisted generation), teams learn how to produce accurate release notes, listing corrections, improvements, and functional enhancements. Finally, they practice the publication process — making the validated distribution available on a download portal, comparable to CobolCloud Online.
The Value of Level 1
Level 1 is where independence begins. By mastering the complete CobolCloud build and release cycle within a secured, guided environment, teams acquire more than operational skills — they gain a structural understanding of how CobolCloud software is engineered, validated, and delivered. This foundation builds confidence and consistency, allowing organizations to move from simple users to informed contributors, fully aligned with CobolCloud’s professional standards. In short, Level 1 transforms installation into education, and execution into empowerment.
Level 2
Code Mastery & Adaptation
The second stage deepens autonomy. Within the Technical Hub 2.0, teams move from observation to intervention: studying CobolCloud components, understanding their inner workings, and learning how to adapt them. At this level, organizations can:
- Fix bugs.
- Adjust functions.
- Add new options.
Every modification is tested and validated within the Hub, under CobolCloud’s supervision. This structured process ensures that autonomy grows safely, without chaos, while gradually reducing dependency on external providers.
From Mastery of the Factory to Action in the Code — If Level 1 provided a full understanding of how CobolCloud software is assembled and validated, Level 2 takes this expertise deeper — from observation to action. At this stage, engineers go beyond replicating distributions to exploring, modifying, and improving CobolCloud components with confidence.
Deep Knowledge, Precise Intervention
Teams study each software module in depth — compiler, runtime, utilities, IDE, and more — learning their internal structure, dependencies, and build model. This granular understanding allows engineers to pinpoint exactly where to act when fixing bugs, improving performance, or adding functionality.
A Structured Path to Evolution
With the Technical Hub 2.0 as a controlled laboratory, changes are developed, tested, and validated in close connection with CobolCloud. This structured collaboration ensures that every improvement:
- Meets CobolCloud’s architectural and quality standards.
- Can be integrated into the official product stream.
- Strengthens long-term maintainability rather than fragmenting it.
Safe Customization Without disorder
While teams gain new autonomy, the Technical Hub model prevents uncontrolled proliferation of custom versions. CobolCloud remains the ultimate validator, guaranteeing that extensions, fixes, or optimizations are consistent, supportable, and strategically aligned.
Preparing for the Future
This level represents more than technical expertise; it’s a step toward true technical sovereignty. Organizations equipped with Level 2 capabilities can react faster, innovate within a secure framework, and actively contribute to the evolution of CobolCloud software, while safeguarding quality and coherence.
Level 3
Core Engineering & Technical Sovereignty
The highest level of MASTER is true technical sovereignty. Teams, trained within the Hub, gain the skills to intervene in the very core of CobolCloud tools. By mastering advanced techniques such as parsing, they can structurally extend the software — adding entirely new features, ensuring continuity, and preparing systems for decades to come.
Here, the Hub evolves from a place of adaptation to a space of co-creation. Organizations achieve the deepest possible autonomy, while CobolCloud safeguards coherence, innovation, and security.
Level 3 represents the highest degree of mastery: the ability to intervene directly in the core of CobolCloud’s toolchain, evolving it with the same rigor as its original creators. This level is not just about maintenance; it’s about transforming COBOL into a living, adaptable platform for decades to come.
Engineering at Publisher Level
Teams trained to this stage develop an engineering discipline equivalent to CobolCloud’s own developers. They understand every layer of the compiler, runtime, precompilers, IDE, and supporting utilities, and can extend or optimize them using the same industrial processes, quality gates, and CI/CD workflows that guide CobolCloud internally.
Structured Extension, Not Ad Hoc Customization
Instead of patching or bypassing complexity, Level 3 expertise makes it possible to structurally extend the toolchain itself. Parsing techniques and advanced compiler engineering open the way to:
- Adding new language constructs.
- Improving runtime efficiency.
- Deepening IDE integration.
- Building future-proof APIs and connectors. All changes remain fully validated within the Technical Hub 2.0, guaranteeing architectural integrity.
A Strategic Investment in Autonomy
Level 3 embodies a choice to treat COBOL as a strategic asset rather than a liability. With this capability, organizations can secure continuity, preserve expertise, and innovate without depending solely on CobolCloud. The Hub becomes an engineering laboratory, enabling co-creation while maintaining central validation and quality oversight.
Internal or Partner-Driven Mastery
Not every company will train in-house engineers to this standard; some prefer to rely on certified partners. Level 3 offers this flexibility, ensuring that sovereignty and innovation remain accessible even without growing large internal teams.
Future-Proofing the Ecosystem
At this stage, organizations can integrate emerging technologies, experiment with new runtimes or distributed environments, and modernize COBOL workflows continuously. This ensures their IT backbone evolves with confidence — without disruptive rewrites or loss of control.
In short: Level 3 is technical sovereignty, architectural agility, and strategic resilience combined. It turns the Technical Hub 2.0 into a center of innovation — and COBOL into a technology with a guaranteed future.
Keep application knowledge alive
The objective of MANAGE is to give organizations back full understanding and control of their COBOL applications — as if they had just gone live. It aims to recreate that day-one clarity: knowing how the system is built, how it behaves, and why it was designed that way.
Acting as a GPS for your applications, MANAGE helps teams navigate decades of code and decisions with confidence. It restores lost knowledge, keeps it alive, and turns it into actionable insight — so developers, architects, and managers can act faster, safer, and smarter, without adding technical debt.
MANAGE unfolds through three continuous principles — Restore the Foundation, Connect the Present, and Share and Empower — each reinforcing the others. Together, they form a living cycle that rebuilds, maintains, and extends your understanding of legacy systems over time.
Restore the Foundation
Decades of undocumented changes, forgotten rules, and lost expertise make legacy systems fragile. MANAGE restores the missing knowledge by analyzing code, logs, historical documentation, tickets, and execution data. AI-powered inspectors rebuild the application’s memory — from business rules to technical dependencies — and make it visible again.
Legacy systems are rarely fragile because of COBOL itself, but because the knowledge that built them has eroded: undocumented changes, lost rules, abandoned diagrams, retired experts. Restore is the first step of MANAGE: it reconstructs this missing memory and transforms a black box into a transparent, navigable asset.
A Comprehensive Knowledge Reconstruction
CobolCloud Manage draws from multiple knowledge sources to rebuild an accurate and actionable map of the system:
- Code Analysis : parsing millions of lines of code to identify structure, control flows, dependencies, and patterns.
- Historical Records : ingesting design documents, specifications, tickets, and archived notes to reconnect technical elements with business intent.
- Runtime Signals : integrating execution logs, performance traces, and profiling data for a real-world view of system behavior.
- Human Expertise : capturing insights from veteran developers and operations staff to fill contextual gaps.
This convergence forms a living knowledge graph of the entire application: programs, transactions, databases, business rules, and their interactions.
AI-Powered Code Inspectors
At the heart of Restore are CobolCloud’s AI-driven Code Inspectors. They analyze source code at scale, detect implicit design choices, and reconstruct relationships across components. Their mission is not to replace engineers, but to amplify their expertise: turning a legacy system into a fully documented, searchable, and explainable ecosystem.
From Blindness to Clarity
Where undocumented systems used to slow projects and create risk, Restore provides:
- A navigable, cross-referenced model of the entire application.
- Explicit documentation of dependencies, logic flows, and risks.
- A knowledge foundation that accelerates development, onboarding, and modernization efforts.
With Restore, organizations gain back control over the most valuable — and historically most fragile — part of their IT: the business logic embedded in COBOL applications.
Connect the Present
Restoring knowledge is not enough; it must be kept alive. MANAGE connects every new change, bug fix, or enhancement back into the knowledge base. This ensures a continuous feed of intelligence, so the organization never falls again into cycles of amnesia. Application memory becomes a living system, always synchronized with present-day reality.
Rebuilding the memory of a legacy application is only the beginning. Knowledge that is not continuously updated quickly becomes obsolete. Connect ensures that this hard-earned clarity remains accurate and evolves in real time, as the application changes.
A Living Knowledge System
CobolCloud Manage transforms documentation from a static deliverable into a dynamic knowledge platform. Every change — bug fix, patch, new feature, or system integration — is captured, validated, and connected back to the application’s knowledge graph.
This creates:
- A single source of truth, always synchronized with the live codebase.
- Full traceability from initial specifications to current implementation.
- Clear visibility into the impact of each modification, across programs, transactions, and data.
Continuous Feedback from Operations
Through runtime monitoring and feedback loops, Connect enriches the knowledge base with real-world behavior data:
- Execution metrics, logs, and traces are correlated with code structure.
- Performance bottlenecks and failure patterns are automatically identified.
- Changes in usage patterns are mapped to their business and technical implications.
Preventing Future Amnesia
Connect eliminates the black-hole effect common in legacy environments, where knowledge fades after each project cycle. With a continuous intelligence layer, teams never have to rediscover the same information twice. Knowledge becomes a strategic asset, enabling safe innovation and rapid response to new demands.
Share and Empower
MANAGE turns memory into actionable insight. Developers benefit from GPS-like guidance, going directly to the right part of the code to fix or extend functionality. Production teams gain diagnostic clarity through correlated logs and impact maps. Architects see dependencies across programs, databases, and transactions. Decision-makers receive a structured view of risks and opportunities.
Clarity has value only if it is accessible and actionable. Share transforms the knowledge rebuilt with Restore and maintained through Connect into a collaborative intelligence system serving every role in the organization — from developers to architects, production teams, and decision-makers.
A Knowledge System for All Roles
Manage consolidates intelligence into an intuitive, navigable system. No more siloed expertise or fragmented documentation:
- Developers: Navigate directly to the exact modules and dependencies for a bug, feature, or refactoring.
- Production Teams: Leverage correlated runtime data and impact maps to accelerate root-cause analysis.
- Architects: Gain high-level visibility into cross-application dependencies, data flows, and risk areas.
- Decision-Makers: Access dashboards for strategic planning, investment, and transformation initiatives.
This convergence forms a living knowledge graph of the entire application: programs, transactions, databases, business rules, and their interactions.
From Documentation to Guidance
Manage goes beyond static documentation to deliver GPS-like guidance:
- Highlighting the fastest path to resolve incidents or implement changes.
- Revealing hidden dependencies and side effects.
- Offering evidence-backed recommendations to prevent regressions and reduce risks.
The Strategic Impact
Share positions Manage as a GPS-like intelligence system for COBOL applications — a strategic initiative under active development. Beyond code navigation, Manage aims to reveal the business intent embedded in decades of development, turning forgotten rules and hidden expertise into actionable knowledge. Legacy becomes transparent, navigable, and a source of strategic value:
- Technical expertise is democratized across the organization.
- Business rules long buried in millions of lines of code are brought back to light.
- Teams gain the visibility and agility needed to evolve COBOL systems continuously rather than fear them.
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