Micro Focus, a provider of enterprise application modernization solutions, announced it is shipping a new release of its COBOL application migration toolset, with support for Microsoft's latest ...

Micro Focus has announced the general availability of Visual COBOL 7.0 and Enterprise Suite 7.0, providing flexible application, process and infrastructure modernization solutions for COBOL and ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Micro Focus (LSE: MCRO; NYSE: MFGP) today announced the general availability of Visual COBOL 8.0 and Enterprise Suite 8.0, building on four decades ...

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When you think of Microsoft’s IDE, Visual Studio 2015, perhaps you can be forgiven for not immediately thinking of COBOL. Micro Focus is rectifying the dearth of COBOL support in Microsoft’s newest of ...

Micro Focus has updated its developer platform for the Cobol programming language, adding the ability to run Cobol applications on Microsoft’s Azure cloud service. Visual Cobol R3, released Thursday, ...

A shortage of COBOL developers means many enterprises are modernizing their mainframe apps to access a larger pool of software developers. But while there are many approaches to COBOL code conversions ...

The legacy programming language that refuses to die is still powering millions of daily transactions, but the difficulties of maintaining and integrating Cobol mainframes make the case for ...

Cobol’s image problem Cobol, as a procedural language, is not perceived to be as agile as object-oriented languages for modern programming needs such as mobile apps and the Web. And despite the ...

WALTHAM, Mass., Sept. 16, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rocket Software, a global technology leader in modernization software, today announced groundbreaking innovations to its COBOL solutions, designed to ...

David Brown is worried. As managing director of the IT transformation group at Bank of New York Mellon, he is responsible for the health and welfare of 112,500 Cobol programs — 343 million lines of ...