eXplain

eXplain

PKS Software
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About

Rocket Assembler Code Refactoring is a specialized modernization solution that automatically restructures legacy Assembler code into structured pseudocode or modern languages such as COBOL, C, or Java without altering external behavior, enabling faster, lower-risk modernization and improved maintainability. Assembler code is notoriously dense, poorly documented, and supported by a shrinking pool of specialists, making maintenance slow, costly, and error-prone; this product addresses those challenges by delivering semantics-preserving, auditable transformations that reduce outages and secure modernization without sacrificing stability. Its fully automated core engine uses mathematically guaranteed logic equivalence to eliminate conversion risk, dramatically accelerating projects while ensuring that refactored outputs are semantically identical to the original code.

About

eXplain is a specialized code-analysis and legacy-system evaluation tool from PKS Software GmbH, designed to deeply analyze, map, document, and assess legacy applications, especially on mainframe platforms such as IBM i (AS/400) and IBM Z, so organizations can understand what lives in their software, how it’s structured, and what parts are worth keeping, refactoring or retiring. It imports existing source code into an independent “eXplain server”, no need to install anything on the host system, then uses advanced parsers to examine languages like COBOL, PL/I, Assembler, Natural, RPG, JCL, and others, along with data about databases (Db2, Adabas, IMS), job-schedulers, transaction monitors, and more. eXplain builds a central repository that becomes a knowledge hub; from there, it generates cross-language dependency graphs, data-flow maps, interface analyses, clusterings of related modules, and detailed object-and-resource usage reports.

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Audience

Architects and modernization teams that need to transform and modernize legacy mainframe assembler code into structured, maintainable, and AI-ready code

Audience

IT organizations, architects, and software-maintenance teams seeking a tool to modernize, refactor, or safely retire legacy systems

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

API

Offers API

API

Offers API

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Pricing

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Free Version
Free Trial

Pricing

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Free Version
Free Trial

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Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Company Information

Rocket Software
Founded: 1990
United States
www.rocketsoftware.com/en-us/products/assembler-code-refactoring

Company Information

PKS Software
Founded: 1991
Germany
www.pks.de/en/kompetenzen/software-analyse-explain

Alternatives

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HelpXplain

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Categories

Categories

Integrations

C
COBOL
Java
C++
HTML
IBM Db2
IBM Power Servers
IBM Z
IBM i
PostgreSQL
Rexx Systems
SQL

Integrations

C
COBOL
Java
C++
HTML
IBM Db2
IBM Power Servers
IBM Z
IBM i
PostgreSQL
Rexx Systems
SQL
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