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Enterprises that want to modernize and extend their mission‑critical distributed COBOL applications
About Rocket Visual COBOL
Rocket Visual COBOL is development and runtime environment that helps enterprises maintain, enhance, and modernize distributed COBOL applications. Rocket COBOL products standardize COBOL development alongside other languages, giving teams access to industry standard tools, flexible deployment options, and DevOps workflows.
With Rocket Visual COBOL, engineering teams work with COBOL inindustry-standard dev tools such as Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, and Eclipse. It delivers advanced editing and debugging, continuous background compilation, and code analysis to speed development and onboarding.
Its portable deployment platform enables risk-free moves to new infrastructure, supports cloud, container, and ARM environments, and integrates smoothly with APIs, .NET, and JVM.
Rocket products also extend the value of large COBOL systems by making them easier to understand and evolve. GenAI powered insights help teams work confidently with COBOL and accelerate delivery.
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Rocket COBOL
Rocket COBOL is development and runtime environment that helps enterprises maintain, enhance, and modernize distributed COBOL applications. Rocket COBOL products standardize COBOL development alongside other languages, giving teams access to industry standard tools, flexible deployment options, and DevOps workflows.
With Rocket COBOL products, engineering teams work with COBOL in industry-standard tools such as Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, and Eclipse. It delivers advanced editing and debugging, continuous background compilation, and code analysis to speed development and onboarding.
Its portable deployment platform enables low risk moves to new infrastructure, supports cloud, container, and ARM environments, and integrates smoothly with APIs, .NET, and JVM ecosystems.
Rocket products also extend the value of large COBOL systems by making them easier to understand and evolve. GenAI powered insights help teams work confidently with COBOL and accelerate delivery.
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Rocket Visual COBOL Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What kinds of users and organization types does Rocket Visual COBOL work with?
Rocket Visual COBOL works with these users and organization types: Mid Size Business, Small Business, Enterprise, Freelance, Nonprofit, Government, and Startup.
Q: What languages does Rocket Visual COBOL support in their product?
Rocket Visual COBOL supports these languages: English.
Q: What kind of support options does Rocket Visual COBOL offer?
Rocket Visual COBOL offers support via phone support and online.
Q: What other applications or services does Rocket Visual COBOL integrate with?
Rocket Visual COBOL integrates with: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Docker, Eclipse GlassFish, IBM Cloud, Kubernetes, Microsoft 365, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, PostgreSQL, Visual Studio Code, and Visual Studio.
Q: What type of training does Rocket Visual COBOL provide?
Rocket Visual COBOL provides training in the form of documentation, webinars, in person, and videos.
Q: Does Rocket Visual COBOL offer a free trial?
Yes, Rocket Visual COBOL offers a free trial.
