Rocket Visual COBOL

Rocket Visual COBOL

Rocket Software
eXplain

eXplain

PKS Software
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About

Rocket Visual COBOL is development and runtime environment that helps enterprises maintain, enhance, and modernize distributed COBOL applications. Rocket COBOL products standardize COBOL development alongside other languages, giving teams access to industry standard tools, flexible deployment options, and DevOps workflows. With Rocket Visual COBOL, engineering teams work with COBOL inindustry-standard dev tools such as Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, and Eclipse. It delivers advanced editing and debugging, continuous background compilation, and code analysis to speed development and onboarding. Its portable deployment platform enables risk-free moves to new infrastructure, supports cloud, container, and ARM environments, and integrates smoothly with APIs, .NET, and JVM. Rocket products also extend the value of large COBOL systems by making them easier to understand and evolve. GenAI powered insights help teams work confidently with COBOL and accelerate delivery.

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 Supported
Mac Not Supported
Linux Supported
Cloud Supported
On-Premises Not Supported
iPhone Not Supported
iPad Not Supported
Android Not Supported
Chromebook Not Supported

Platforms Supported

Windows Not Supported
Mac Not Supported
Linux Not Supported
Cloud Supported
On-Premises Not Supported
iPhone Not Supported
iPad Not Supported
Android Not Supported
Chromebook Not Supported

Audience

Enterprises that want to modernize and extend their mission‑critical distributed COBOL applications

Audience

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

Support

Phone Support Supported
24/7 Live Support Not Supported
Online Supported

Support

Phone Support Supported
24/7 Live Support Not Supported
Online Supported

API

Offers API Not Supported

API

Offers API Supported

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

No information available.
Free Version Not Supported
Free Trial Supported

Pricing

No information available.
Free Version Not Supported
Free Trial Not Supported

Reviews/Ratings

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ease 0.0 / 5
features 0.0 / 5
design 0.0 / 5
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Training

Documentation Supported
Webinars Supported
Live Online Not Supported
In Person Supported

Training

Documentation Supported
Webinars Not Supported
Live Online Supported
In Person Not Supported

Company Information

Rocket Software
United States
www.rocketsoftware.com/en-us/products/cobol/visual-cobol-personal-edition

Company Information

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

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Categories

Categories

Integrations

PostgreSQL Supported
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Supported
C Not Supported
C++ Not Supported
COBOL Not Supported
Docker Supported
Eclipse GlassFish Supported
IBM Cloud Supported
IBM Db2 Not Supported
IBM Z Not Supported
IBM i Not Supported
Java Not Supported
Kubernetes Supported
Microsoft 365 Supported
Microsoft Azure Supported
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Supported
Rexx Systems Not Supported
SQL Not Supported
Visual Studio Supported
Visual Studio Code Supported

Integrations

PostgreSQL Supported
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Not Supported
C Supported
C++ Supported
COBOL Supported
Docker Not Supported
Eclipse GlassFish Not Supported
IBM Cloud Not Supported
IBM Db2 Supported
IBM Z Supported
IBM i Supported
Java Supported
Kubernetes Not Supported
Microsoft 365 Not Supported
Microsoft Azure Not Supported
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Not Supported
Rexx Systems Supported
SQL Supported
Visual Studio Not Supported
Visual Studio Code Not Supported
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