Platform Success Stories
Developers Document COBOL with COBOLpro

Challenge: Client projects were delayed by 6-8 months due to manual COBOL analysis requirements. Teams spent 60% of project time just understanding legacy business logic before any change could begin.

Solution: Implemented COBOLpro across 12 client engagements to automate business rules extraction, dependency mapping, and documentation generation. Platform identified 2,800+ business rules and created audit-ready documentation.

Results: Cut feature implementation time in half, reduced project risk, and increased client satisfaction scores by 35%. Now standard tool across all mainframe modernization engagements.

Challenge: Critical payment processing changes required lengthy analysis cycles and still resulted in production incidents.

Solution: Deployed COBOLpro to create comprehensive dependency maps and impact analysis for 180+ COBOL programs. Automated change impact assessment integrated into development workflow.

Results: Reduced analysis time and eliminated change‑related incidents over the period measured.

Challenge: Annual regulatory audits required 4-6 months of manual analysis to document business logic in 200+ COBOL programs. Previous audit findings cited incomplete documentation of critical calculation rules.

Solution: Implemented COBOLpro to systematically extract business rules from policy calculation programs, generate field-level data lineage, and create audit-ready documentation with SME validation.

Results: Reduced audit preparation from 6 months to 2 weeks, achieved highest-ever compliance scores, and regulatory team commended documentation quality as 'industry best practice.'

Challenge: Three senior developers with 40+ years combined COBOL experience were retiring within 6 months. Systems processed $2.4B annually in citizen benefits with no comprehensive documentation.

Solution: Emergency deployment of COBOLpro to extract business logic, document system dependencies, and capture expert knowledge through integrated SME review process before staff departure.

Results: Successfully retained 100% of critical system knowledge, enabled seamless transition to new staff, and maintained zero service disruptions during personnel change.

Challenge: Pricing logic in COBOL programs needed to be understood for integration work, but program documentation was fragmented.

Solution: Used COBOLpro to document COBOL source code and program logic, creating comprehensive guides for integration work.

Results: Teams could better plan integration work and maintain pricing accuracy during the transition.

Challenge: Cargo tracking COBOL programs needed to be understood by development teams, but knowledge was concentrated in a few individuals.

Solution: Deployed COBOLpro to document COBOL program logic and data flows, creating accessible documentation for teams.

Results: Improved team productivity and reduced time spent on knowledge transfer between team members.

Challenge: With experienced staff retiring, the company needed to ensure knowledge transfer about billing calculations in COBOL programs.

Solution: Implemented COBOLpro to document COBOL program logic and data structures, creating reference materials for operations staff.

Results: Improved system understanding for new staff and supported continuity during personnel transitions.

Challenge: Customer account COBOL programs needed to be understood for technical assessments, but limited documentation made evaluation difficult.

Solution: Used COBOLpro to document COBOL program logic and data structures, enabling informed technical decisions.

Results: Teams could make better assessments and reduced time for new developers to become productive.

Challenge: Only a few developers understood the complex pension calculation logic in COBOL programs, creating risks during regulatory reviews.

Solution: Deployed COBOLpro to create documentation of COBOL program logic and data structures for compliance purposes.

Results: Maintained calculation accuracy during reviews and reduced preparation time for regulatory assessments.

Challenge: Portfolio management COBOL programs needed to be understood for technical assessments, but critical knowledge was concentrated in key staff.

Solution: Implemented COBOLpro to document COBOL source code and program logic, supporting technical evaluation processes.

Results: Reduced assessment time and improved developer productivity when working with legacy COBOL programs.

Challenge: Limited staff understood the complex billing calculations and treatment process logic in COBOL programs, creating operational risks.

Solution: Used COBOLpro to document COBOL program logic and data structures, creating reference materials for technical teams.

Results: Improved team comprehension of critical COBOL programs and supported operational continuity.

Challenge: Teams had varying interpretations of reinsurance logic in COBOL programs, causing inconsistencies in technical work.

Solution: Deployed COBOLpro to document COBOL source code, creating standardized documentation for development teams.

Results: Improved consistency in technical work and reduced time spent analyzing COBOL program behavior.