There are over 30 billion COBOL transactions processed every single day. Optimizing COBOL applications is extremely important and can lead to significant cost savings and improved operations. As COBOL applications contain code that was written all the way back to 1960, and hundreds of developers have worked on these applications throughout the years, it is blatantly obvious that there is a need for modernization. The COBOL language has evolved throughout the years and new features and techniques are available today to achieve the same functionality with better performance. The most obvious example is the emergence of COBOL LE.
BluePhoenix offers a COBOL analyzer service to analyze your existing COBOL code and provide a set of recommendations based on our 20 years of mainframe experience and IBM best practice documentation. Our COBOL code analyzer and the resulting optimization solution is based on an automated tool that enables a thorough inspection of the COBOL code, identifies inefficiency, and even has the ability to automatically perform adjustments to the code.
COBOL optimization leads to many benefits: program execution time can be reduced, CPU consumption can be lowered, and particularly with batch processes, the batch execution window can be dramatically shortened.