Rocket Visual COBOLRocket Software
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eXplainPKS 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.
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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.
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Platforms Supported
Windows
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Mac
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Linux
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Windows
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Mac
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Linux
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Cloud
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On-Premises
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iPhone
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iPad
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Android
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Chromebook
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Audience
Enterprises that want to modernize and extend their mission‑critical distributed COBOL applications
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IT organizations, architects, and software-maintenance teams seeking a tool to modernize, refactor, or safely retire legacy systems
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Support
Phone Support
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24/7 Live Support
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API
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Training
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Company InformationRocket Software
United States
www.rocketsoftware.com/en-us/products/cobol/visual-cobol-personal-edition
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Company InformationPKS Software
Founded: 1991
Germany
www.pks.de/en/kompetenzen/software-analyse-explain
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PostgreSQL
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Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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C
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C++
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COBOL
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Docker
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Eclipse GlassFish
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IBM Cloud
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IBM Db2
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IBM Z
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Integrations
PostgreSQL
Supported
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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C
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C++
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COBOL
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Docker
Not Supported
Eclipse GlassFish
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IBM Cloud
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IBM Db2
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IBM Z
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