Channels ▼   Veryant vCOBOL: Mainframe Migration and
Modernization  Veryant has refined its vCOBOL Enterprise tool
with a view to increasing its adoption as a means of migration
and compatibility with legacy mainframe and Micro Focus COBOL
dialects.  Upping its debugging capabilities at the same time,
Veryant says that vCOBOL Enterprise is a cost-effective
alternative to legacy COBOL dialects commonly found running
business-critical transaction processing systems.  "With an
estimated 200 billion lines of COBOL still in use at enterprises
worldwide, there is enormous need to preserve these large
investments in data, yet evolve existing COBOL applications into
more modern and useful resources at the same time," explained
Dovid Lubin, vice president, Veryant.  To date, vCOBOL has
proved useful when migrating COBOL applications off of IBM
mainframes. The product has also been used to drive interactive
and batch type applications on open systems. This new release
tries to extend the value of companies' existing CO