The bottom line is that COBOL software
systems must be maintained in order to remain productive and efficient. An
obvious answer to COBOL software maintenance backlog is to hire
more programming staff or to bring in consultants. But this is a solution that
can be prohibitively expensive and, at best, is no more than a stopgap measure.
What is needed is a set of proper tools to eliminate the laborious,
time-consuming, and costly process of manual COBOL software maintenance procedures.
Our COBOL Software automates your COBOL program maintenance
The most promising and most effective answer is to be found in automated
COBOL software maintenance systems like that incorporated in DCD.
Given the DCD - Automated COBOL Maintenance Software to use as a "tool", your organization can effectively and
economically maintain even the most complex arsenal of COBOL-based software in
an up-to-date, totally accurate form.
Our COBOL Software provides fast
and accurate documentation
With DCD COBOL Software, your COBOL maintenance team will be in a position to produce effective
documentation which will serve to help programmers and analysts understand
individual programs or systems, accelerate the COBOL maintenance process, avoid the
need for additional staff, and/or free programmers for new COBOL program development.
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Our COBOL Software saves you time and
money
DCD COBOL software is designed to dramatically reduce the time and resulting costs involved in
COBOL program maintenance of the user’s existing COBOL programs. It is generally accepted that
such COBOL program maintenance consumes nearly 80 percent of the time spent by
COBOL programmers.
DCD COBOL software sharply diminishes that time commitment by providing the
COBOL programmers
with effective, computerized tools with which to accomplish their mission. It
does so by producing comprehensive, accurate, and timely automated
documentation, which was previously prepared manually, or not at all.
Our COBOL Software provides accurate data correlation and documentation
needed
Accurate COBOL program documentation aids in debugging COBOL programs and systems by helping
the programmer to quickly analyze disparities in programs that can cause
confusion and errors in program operation. Once identified, disparities can be
rapidly eliminated and all programs kept up to date and in optimum operating
condition. Click here for more on COBOL - Legacy
Modernization
The Proprietary Narrative of Our COBOL
Software When a programmer does his 20 page scans, this is what he is trying to develop.
We've already developed both the format for the narrative, as well as the
narrative itself.
Marble Computer puts all the pieces together with the highly logical Narrative of our
Alternate COBOL Compile Report. Slashing the Programmer's work, it amazingly provides
all the information in one page flip, in place of the normal 10 to 20 page
flips. The Direct narrative we create for each data field is a well-organized,
well-presented sorted listing of every Procedure Division instruction touching
every Data Field. Your programmers currently assemble this information through a
long tedious task of endless page flips between cross-reference and procedure
division. And that's only for the Direct Narrative. To get at the Indirect
narrative is even more difficult. Only in DCD COBOL software do you get a listing of the
Indirect narrative - the hidden references-those with over-lapping positions to
every evaluated field. Programmers must search long and hard with another 15 or
more page flips to find all of these hidden references. And Indirect references
are typically forgotten by the programmer in a rush. Click here for more on
DCD - COBOL Automated Software Packages
