Micro Focus' developer technology allows for more efficient development of core applications through advanced COBOL tooling and a unified development environment. It provides modern IDE choices for COBOL development in Visual Studio and Eclipse, maximizing the developer skills pool. Visual COBOL supports deploying COBOL applications to the cloud and mobile devices to enhance the end user experience. It offers a portable, agile architecture that supports flexible application deployment across 50+ platforms.

2. Under the Hood with
Micro Focus’
Developer Technology
Michael Bleistein, Principal Architect

3. Development Efficiency
Core applications delivered 30% faster
Capability
 Advanced app dev tooling for COBOL
 Unified environment offers efficient
collaboration
 Development integration across all
languages
Benefits
 Accelerate application delivery
 Reduce IT costs, maximize budget and
protect assets
 Meet variable application demand
 Access core applications from any
device
 Low cost delivery to new platforms

4. Demonstration
Modern IDE choices for COBOL

5. Capability
 Industry standard COBOL
development under Visual Studio
and Eclipse
 Consistent experience for .NET,
Java and COBOL developers
 Smart editing tools easier to learn
than ever
Benefits
 Maximize the developer skills pool
 Attract new developers
 Protect the value & importance of
your core apps
Skills & Organization
Maximize developer resource pool

6. COBOL is over here….
• J2EE, JVM, or .NET
• SOAP
• Traditional Web Services – RPC, Document
• Microsoft WCF in .NET
• REST – JSON, XML
• RDBMS – SQL Server, Oracle, DB2 LUW
• DB Design – Indexes, Relationships
• Data APIs – ADO.NET, JDBC, ODBC, ESQL
• Stored Procedures
• Structured Programming
• Object Oriented design and concepts
• Browser – ASP.NET, JSP, HTML 5, Jquery
• Mobile – HTML 5
• User Interface Design
• Thick Client
• WPF (Windows Presentation
Foundation) / XAML and Winforms
• Java / Swing, AWT, etc.
• MQ Series
Common Perception
IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
PROGRAM-ID. PB300SUB.
REMARKS. THIS PROGRAM CALCULATES A MONTHLY PAYMENT
AMOUNT BASED
TERM, PRINCIPAL, AND INTEREST RATE.
ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
DATA DIVISION.
WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
01 RUN-LOG-RECORD.
03 RUN-MESSAGE PIC X(40).
03 RUN-DATE PIC X(8).
01 WORKFIELDS.
03 WRK-MESSAGE PIC X(40) VALUE "CALCULATING PAYMENT".
03 WRK-RATE PIC S9(9)V9(9) COMP-3.
03 WRK-PAYMENT PIC S9(9)V9(9) COMP-3.
03 WRK-PAYMENT-A PIC $$,$$$.99.
LINKAGE SECTION.
COPY LOANCOMM.
PROCEDURE DIVISION USING LOANINFO.
000-START-PROCESSING.
* CALL PROGRAMA
* CALL PROGRAMB
* ...AND MANY MORE CALLS TO OTHER COBOL MODULES THAT
PROVIDE
* CRITICAL PROCESSING ON A DAILY BASIS
MOVE WRK-MESSAGE TO RUN-MESSAGE
MOVE CURRENT-DATE TO RUN-DATE
Supported by: C#, Java, Visual Basic, C/C++
All the new stuff is over here...

7. • J2EE, JVM, or .NET
• SOAP
• Traditional Web Services – RPC, Document
• Microsoft WCF in .NET
• REST – JSON, XML
• RDBMS – SQL Server, Oracle, DB2 LUW
• DB Design – Indexes, Relationships
• Data APIs – ADO.NET, JDBC, ODBC, ESQL
• Stored Procedures
• Structured Programming
• Object Oriented design and concepts
• Browser – ASP.NET, JSP, HTML 5, Jquery
• Mobile – HTML 5
• User Interface Design
• Thick Client
• WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) /
XAML and Winforms
• Java / Swing, AWT, etc.
• MQ SeriesVisualCOBOL
Visual COBOL supports modern application
development…
…With COBOL

8. Demonstration
Visual COBOL - Maximize your resource pool

9. Capability
 On-premise COBOL app
deployment
 Supports Windows Azure SQL
Database
 Supports IaaS providers including
Amazon
and Azure
Benefits
 Increased application reliability,
availability
and serviceability
 Achieve your Cloud strategy ROI
 Rapid service delivery – 25%
faster
Cloud Deployment
Scalable, cost-effective application deployment to the Cloud

10. Demonstration
Visual COBOL – Cloud Deployment

11. Mobile Access
Enhancing the End User Experience with Visual COBOL
Capability
 iPhone, Android, Windows 8
device access
to COBOL apps
 Supports Web 2.0 & HTML 5
applications
 Build SOA-enabled systems
Benefits
 Build vibrant user interfaces.
Deliver a better user experience
 Respond to consumer service
demands
 Get ahead of the competition

12. Demonstration
BYOD to Visual COBOL

13. Architecture
Portable, agile, core application deployment
Capability
 Enterprise portability of COBOL
business apps
 Supports 50+ platforms - Windows,
Unix, Linux, z/Linux, .NET, JVM,
and zOS.
 Integration with XML, SOA, Web
Services, and Relational Databases
Benefits
 Reduce Time to Delivery by up to
50%
 Flexible application deployment
choice
 Build once: Deploy anywhere!

14. Demonstration
Visual COBOL - Flexible application architecture