Rocket Visual COBOL Personal Edition
Rocket Visual COBOL Personal Edition is a free, academic-use development environment that allows students and professionals to learn modern COBOL inside today’s most popular IDEs, including Visual Studio, Eclipse, and Visual Studio Code.
It provides advanced editing, debugging, continuous background compilation, and intelligent code analysis to accelerate learning and productivity.
With support for both .NET and JVM ecosystems, learners can combine COBOL with C#, Java, and other modern languages in a single toolset.
Designed specifically for education and skills development, it offers a one-year student developer license at no cost. It also helps new developers build foundational COBOL abilities while enabling experienced programmers to explore modernization techniques.
With over 100,000 downloads, it remains one of the most trusted ways to learn and practice COBOL development.
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BMC Compuware ISPW
A modern mainframe CI/CD tool can ensure your mainframe code pipelines are secure, stable, and streamlined throughout the DevOps lifecycle. With BMC Compuware ISPW, you’ll have the confidence of knowing that you can quickly and safely build, test, and deploy mainframe code. ISPW empowers developers of all experience levels to increase the quality, velocity, and efficiency of software development and delivery. Use ISPW for mainframe source code management (SCM) as well as build and deploy, or with enterprise Git. Connect with modern DevOps toolchains using REST APIs and command line interfaces (CLIs). Flexibility to work in Eclipse-based Topaz, ISPF, or VS Code. Automate, standardize, and monitor deployments into multiple target environments. Support multiple developers working on the same program at the same time. Catch conflicts early with intuitive displays that show the real-time status of all programs throughout the lifecycle.
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IBM Wazi for Dev Spaces
IBM Wazi for Dev Spaces provides a modern experience for mainframe software developers working with z/OS applications in the cloud. Powered by the open source projects Zowe™ and Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces, IBM Wazi for Dev Spaces offers an easy, streamlined onboarding process to provide mainframe developers with the tools they need. Using container technology, IBM Wazi for Dev Spaces brings the necessary tools to the task at hand. It provides a single-click developer workspace and eliminates local environment configuration. IBM Wazi for Dev Spaces devfile registry is a web service that provides a list of Wazi for Dev Spaces stacks to create ready-to-use workspaces. The list of stacks is used in the quick add, CodeReady Dashboard. A devfile stack contains the definitions for an application developer workspace based on devfile specifications.
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Rocket Enterprise Suite
Rocket® Enterprise Suite is an application modernization solution designed to reduce the risk of mainframe modernization by allowing organizations to migrate mainframe applications in their existing code. This minimizes failure risk and delivers faster project timelines. It supports both COBOL and PL/I workloads and can be deployed on-premises, in the cloud, or in hybrid environments, providing flexibility for diverse IT infrastructures.
The suite includes tools for analyzing, securing, accessing, developing, testing, deploying, and migrating mainframe applications. It uses an AI-powered natural language assistant to simplify code analysis, making it easier for teams to understand and document complex mainframe applications and improve DevOps practices
Backed by 40 years of experience and thousands of successful mainframe modernization projects, Rocket Enterprise Suite is built to deliver modern application development with lower project risk and increased development speed.
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