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          Migrate Your COBOL Applications to a  
          Cost-Effective, High-Performance Platform
          NTT DATA Enterprise COBOL
                                                         Modernize legacy systems with high-performance COBOL solutions
                                                         Maintaining your legacy mainframe or Micro Focus COBOL systems can be costly in 
              Benefits:
                                                         today’s constantly evolving digital realm. To stay competitive, you need to migrate to a 
                •  Offers a cost-effective               cost-effective platform. NTT DATA Enterprise COBOL provides a powerful environment 
                   alternative to legacy                 for you to develop and deploy robust, business-critical COBOL applications on 
                   mainframe and Micro                   scalable, open systems. It is well suited to handle your mission-critical online and batch 
                   Focus COBOL                           environments, as well as stand-alone application deployments.
                •  Supports ANSI-85 
                   standard and legacy                   Maximize the value of your existing resources
                   COBOL dialects                        With NTT DATA COBOL, you can lower your total cost of ownership without impacting 
                •  Produces reliable and                 your existing development teams. Core components of the platform include:
                   efficient object code that              •  A powerful COBOL compiler
                   can be deployed on a                    •  A streamlined, portable runtime environment
                   range of platforms                      •  Flexible IDE for Visual Studio and an Eclipse-based workbench
                •  Complies with standard                  •  Graphical and command-line source-level debuggers
                   external file handler                   •  A range of data access capabilities to simplify transitions to NTT DATA COBOL
                   (EXTFH) and external 
                   sort module (EXTSM)                   Supporting the ANSI-85 standard and legacy COBOL dialects, the NTT DATA COBOL 
                   interfaces                            compiler produces optimized, portable object code that you can deploy on a variety of 
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                •  Includes a powerful                   Linux , UNIX  and Microsoft Windows  platforms to take full advantage of 32-bit or 64-
                   COBOL compiler, a                     bit deployments.
                   streamlined runtime 
                   environment, a                        The NTT DATA COBOL compiler handles the majority of operational analysis and 
                   source-level debugger                 execution instructions performed by alternative platforms during runtime. This approach 
                   and a portable indexed                can significantly improve critical runtime performance.
                   file system
                •  Provides a flexible 
                   environment for 
                   integrating with external 
                   software
         NTT DATA Enterprise COBOL
          The NTT DATA COBOL runtime                       •   A dump of COBOL working-storage          existing skill sets, application code and 
          environment can also enhance                       memory, including each data item           administrative tools on open systems 
          performance by optimizing access                   name, length, value and hexadecimal        to help improve your bottom line and 
          to COBOL data types using native                   byte dump of the data item contents        prepare your enterprise for the future.
          memory. With this memory management 
          technique, COBOL data is loaded in             Robust and comprehensive                       NTT DATA COBOL’s Java Invocation API 
          a single operation when possible, as           data access                                    and Java-to-COBOL and COBOL-to-
          opposed to one byte at a time. The NTT         The modular design of NTT DATA                 Java CALL interfaces provide seamless 
          DATA COBOL runtime environment has             COBOL supports a wide range of data            integration between COBOL programs 
          been designed to minimize overhead             access options.                                and Java Enterprise Edition server 
          and deliver improved performance in                                                           environments. With NTT DATA COBOL’s 
          common enterprise scenarios, as well           NTT DATA COBOL supports all common             innovative framework, you can natively 
          as interlanguage calls such as Java or C       COBOL file organizations and record            call legacy COBOL programs from 
          calling COBOL or COBOL calling Java            types. This includes indexed, relative,        Java servlets, web services, Enterprise 
          or C.                                          binary sequential and line sequential file     JavaBeans or any other Java program.
                                                         organizations, with fixed and variable 
          Debugging and diagnostics                      length records. NTT DATA COBOL also 
          The NTT DATA COBOL runtime                     supports EXTFH interfaces (to access 
          environment includes sophisticated,            virtual storage access method files and 
          remote debugging capabilities. You can         generation data groups) and EXTSM 
          choose to use a command-line debugger,         interfaces (to access external sort 
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          a graphical stand-alone                        packages like Syncsort  DMExpress ). 
          debugger, or the debugging capabilities        NTT DATA COBOL also has a built-in 
          found in the Visual Studio IDE or Eclipse      ESQL compiler that translates EXEC 
          Workbench to perform source-level              SQL statements to JDBC calls, and also 
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          debugging activities.                          supports Pro*COBOL , IBM  DB2  and 
                                                         other precompilers.
          When regular debugging techniques are 
          not able to address a production error or      NTT DATA COBOL also includes JISAM, 
          a problem cannot be easily reproduced,         a portable indexed sequential access 
          the exception dump report feature is           method file system that enables fast 
          available to help you report                   access to data files.
          on the state of an application at the 
          moment of the error. This report can be        COBOL for business-critical
          used to identify the root cause                operations
          of an issue by providing all pertinent         NTT DATA COBOL provides an  
          information, including:                        alternative to legacy COBOL  
            •  Execution environment details,            platforms commonly found running 
              such as the date and time when             business-critical transaction processing 
              the exception occurred, the runtime        systems. Extensive COBOL dialect 
              framework version and loaded               support makes it easy for you to migrate 
              programs in use                            existing applications with little to no 
            •  The names of the COBOL program,           application code change. Valuable 
              paragraph and source file, as well         application code can be quickly  
              as the source line number of the           re-platformed and distributed on a wide 
              code that was executing when the           range of open systems.
              exception occurred
            •  The COBOL call stack at the time          Via integration with NTT DATA COBOL 
              the exception occurred, including the      offers an established, scalable platform 
              names of all programs in the stack         to re-host your mission-critical online and 
              and the names of the associated            batch mainframe assets to open systems.
              source files                               Our mainframe re-hosting software uses 
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