Code Search (Find, Follow), Analysis (Metrics, Static, Dynamic, Bugs) and Change (Modernization, Migration, Generation, Optimization, Rearchitecting)

COBOL Programming Language Development Tools

COBOL is and will long continue to be one of the major programming languages supporting business-critical enterprise systems. Semantic Designs is committed to supporting COBOL and provides significant support to the COBOL developer and system architect with the following tools:

• Test Coverage
• Smart Differencer
• Metrics
• Style Checker
• Profiler
• Source File Browser
• Formatter

Service or enterprise solutions for COBOL:

• Large-scale Source Code Search
• Clone Detection (See sample clone analysis showing 58% redundancy!)
• Component Connectivity. These tools have been used extensively with large scale IBM Enterprise COBOL systems, and specifically with Hogan/COBOL software.
• Migration from COBOL to another language
• Modernizing a legacy COBOL system

For building custom tools for COBOL:

• Front End
• Customizable Analyzer
• Source-to-Source Transformation
• Migration

If your desired tool is not in this list, it can likely be custom-built using the DMS® Software Reengineering Toolkit.

See tools for other languages.