Platform — how does it work?

We taught modern computers to speak your mainframe's language.

Your programs never needed to change. Only the machine underneath them did.

01 — The trick

Your code was never the problem.

Your programs are written in languages like COBOL. They work perfectly — the trouble is that only one machine in the world runs them: the mainframe. Expensive, closed, and aging.

Everyone else attacks the code: rewrite it (years, and it usually fails), auto-translate it (code nobody wrote, nobody trusts), or run a fake mainframe somewhere else (same cage, new address).

We target the machine instead. Our compilers let any modern computer run your programs natively — the code and data stay exactly, byte for byte, as they are.

02 — What actually happens

A project, step by step.

1
We look at a copy

Together we work on a copy of your programs and data. Your production systems are never touched.

2
The compiler builds them

It reads your COBOL, PL/I and JCL as-is and produces programs a modern computer runs natively. Nothing is rewritten.

3
Both run side by side

Old system and new system process the same work. We compare the results until they match — transaction for transaction.

4
You switch — when ready

You move over piece by piece, at your pace. And the same code is now open to modern languages, APIs, and AI.

03 — Does it cover your stack?

Works with what you have.

Languages & environments
COBOLPL/ICA GenNaturalAssemblerJCLREXXCICS, IMS DCBatch
Data & transactions
Sequential / VSAM / GDGDb2IMS DBAdabasOracleCICSIMS DCMQControl-M / CA7
Runs on
LinuxOn-prem
AWSAzureGoogle Cloud
DockerKubernetes
ContainersMicroservices

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