Migrate your COBOL                                                                                                              
                 applications to a cost-effective, 
                 high-performance platform.
                 Dell™ Enterprise COBOL
                                                                                                                                                                         Develop and 
                                                                                                                                                                         deploy robust, 
                                                                                                                                                                         business-critical 
                                                                                                                                                                         COBOL 
                                                                                                                                                                         applications 
                                                                                                                                                                         on scalable 
                                                                                                                                                                         open systems.
                 Modernize legacy systems with high-performance COBOL solutions
                 Dell Enterprise COBOL provides a powerful environment for you to develop and 
                 deploy robust, business-critical COBOL applications on scalable open systems. A 
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                 cost-effective alternative to legacy mainframe and Micro Focus  COBOL dialects, 
                 Dell Enterprise COBOL is well-suited to mission-critical interactive and batch 
                 environments, as well as standalone application deployments.                                                                                        Key benefits
                 Maximize the value of existing resources                                                                                                            •	  Offers a cost-effective alternative 
                 You can lower your total cost of ownership (TCO) without impacting existing                                                                             to legacy mainframe and Micro 
                 development teams using Dell Enterprise COBOL. Core components of the                                                                                   Focus COBOL
                 technology include:                                                                                                                                 •	  Supports ANSI-85 standard and 
                 •	   Powerful COBOL compiler                                                                                                                            legacy COBOL dialects
                 •	   Streamlined, portable run-time environment                                                                                                     •	  Produces reliable and efficient 
                                                                                                                                                                         object code that can be deployed on 
                 •	   Flexible Visual Studio-based integrated development environment (IDE)                                                                              a range of platforms
                 •	   Graphical and command-line source-level debugger                                                                                               •	  Complies with standard external file 
                 •	   Range of data access capabilities to simplify transitions to Dell                                                                                  handler (EXTFH) and external sort 
                 Supporting the ANSI-85 standard and legacy COBOL dialects, the Dell Enterprise                                                                          module (EXTSM) interfaces
                 COBOL Compiler produces optimized, portable object code that you can deploy on                                                                      •	  Includes a powerful COBOL 
                                            ®                                      ®                                                                                     compiler, streamlined runtime 
                 a variety of Linux  and Microsoft Windows  platforms to take full advantage of 32-                                                                      environment, source-level debugger 
                 bit or 64-bit deployments.                                                                                                                              and a portable indexed file system
                 The Dell Enterprise COBOL compiler handles the majority of operational analysis                                                                     •	  Provides a flexible environment for 
                 and execution instructions performed by alternative platforms during runtime. This                                                                      integrating with external software
                 approach can significantly improve critical runtime performance.
             Dell Enterprise COBOL
            The Dell Enterprise COBOL runtime                               •	  The COBOL call stack at the time the                         it easy for you to migrate existing 
             environment can also enhance                                        exception occurred, including the                           applications with little to no application 
             performance by optimizing access to                                 names of all programs in the stack                          code change. Valuable application 
             COBOL data types using native memory.                               and the names of the associated                             code can be quickly replatformed and 
             With this memory management                                         source files                                                distributed on a wide range of 
             technique, COBOL data is loaded in                             •	   A dump of COBOL working-storage                             open systems.
             a single operation when possible, as                                memory, including each data-item 
             opposed to one byte at a time. The                                  name, length, value and hexadecimal                        Dell Enterprise COBOL technology is 
             runtime environment has been designed                               byte dump of the data-item contents                         integrated with Dell Mainframe 
             to minimize overhead and deliver                                                                                               Re-hosting software to offer an 
             improved performance in common                                  Robust and comprehensive                                        established and scalable platform to 
             enterprise scenarios, as well as inter-                         data access                                                     re-host mission-critical online and batch 
             language calls such as C calling COBOL                         The modular design of Dell Enterprise                            mainframe assets to open systems. Dell’s 
             or COBOL calling C.                                             COBOL supports a wide range of data                             mainframe re-hosting software uses 
                                                                             access options.                                                 existing skill sets, application code and 
             Debugging and diagnostics                                                                                                       administrative tools on open systems 
            The Dell Enterprise COBOL runtime                               The technology supports all common                               help improve the bottom line and 
             environment includes sophisticated,                             COBOL file organizations and record                             better prepare an enterprise to sustain 
             remote debugging capabilities. You                              types. This includes indexed, relative,                         competitive advantages in the future.
             can choose to use a command-line                                binary sequential and line sequential file 
             debugger, a graphical standalone                                organizations, with fixed and variable                         The COBOL software’s Java Invocation 
             debugger or the debugging capabilities                          length records. Dell Enterprise COBOL                          API also provides seamless integration 
             found in the Visual Studio IDE to perform                       also supports EXTFH and EXTSM                                   between COBOL programs and 
             source-level debugging activities.                              interfaces. Dell Enterprise COBOL                              Java Enterprise Edition (JEE) server 
                                                                             has a built-in embedded structured                              environments. With Dell Enteprise 
             When regular debugging techniques are                           query language (ESQL) compiler that                            COBOL technology, COBOL programs 
             not able to address a production error or                       translates embedded SQL (EXEC SQL)                              can be called directly from Java 
             a problem cannot be easily reproduced,                          statements to JDBC calls, and also                              programs. Our innovative framework 
             the Abend Diagnostic Snapshot (ADS)                             supports Pro*COBOL, DB2 and other                               enables you to natively call legacy 
             facility is available to help you report                        precompilers.                                                  COBOL programs from java servlets, 
             on the state of an application at the                                                                                           web services, Enterprise JavaBeans or 
             moment of the error. This report can                           The Dell Enterprise COBOL platform                               any other Java program.
             be used to identify the root cause                              also includes JISAM, a portable indexed 
             of an issue by providing all pertinent                          sequential access methodfile system                             For more information about any 
             information, including:                                         that enables fast access to data files.                         of our service offerings, please 
             •	  Execution environment setting details                                                                                      visit Dell.com/services and 
                 such as the program version, runtime                        COBOL for business-critical                                     Dell.com/appmod or contact your 
                 framework and loaded programs in use                        operations                                                      Dell representative.
             •	  The names of the COBOL program,                             Dell Enterprise COBOL provides an 
                 paragraph and source file, as well                          alternative to legacy COBOL platforms 
                 as the source line number of the                            commonly found running business-
                 code that was executing when the                            critical transaction processing systems. 
                 exception occurred                                          Extensive COBOL dialect support makes 
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