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Micro Focus Visual COBOL Developer

Open Text | 9.0.7

Windows, Windows Server 2022 Base Windows_Server-2022-English-Full-Base-2024.03.13 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

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    Banking

Very user friendly

  • April 04, 2022
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
. And especially for young developers who are used to eclipse IDP are more comfortable as the interface is quite similar.
What do you dislike about the product?
Few mainframe functions are limitations.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Before compilation error are displayed or suggested.


    Insurance

Positive Review

  • March 27, 2022
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use and support available from the team
What do you dislike about the product?
Unit testing framework seems to be still under development
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Insurance business rules
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Nothing


    Abhishek K.

Micro focus visual COBOL experience

  • March 22, 2022
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
The best thing about microfocus visual cobol is it's integration with various RDBMS and ability to get deployed on various OS which helps to reuse the cobol code efficiently.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes I have faced performance issues with microfocus when I was trying to run integrated cobol applications and system was taking the maximum CPU usage. This may impact efficiency of the application.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The most important problem which is getting solved using microfocus is the ability to integrate the cobol code on various OS which is helping to modernize the Mainframe.
This helps customers to modernize the mainframe and take advantage of cloud and various new technologies without taking significant cost.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you are looking to modernize your mainframe application, microfocus visual cobol is your go to product


    Diksha G.

Its is in very plain binary language, so it is fast and secure.

  • March 16, 2022
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
easy to learn, business oriented capabilities, universality, easy to read, modify and debug.
What do you dislike about the product?
the time required to compile a cobol program might be greater than with a machine oriented programming language.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Writing logical formulas in complex business calculations
Recommendations to others considering the product:
As various cloud providers, provide different platforms for Cobol based application which is very good for rapid deployment and modernization. Most Cobol systems can quickly re deployed to a virtual or cloud platform with no change.


    Rajat J.

Microfocus is one of the best organisation to provide solutions

  • March 16, 2022
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
One of the best Products within other enterprise softwares with highly good features and ease of using
What do you dislike about the product?
Logs have limited accuracy to identify root cause and deployment timing is more
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Help to optimise applications and development


    Insurance

Microfocus Cobol experience

  • March 12, 2022
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Multiply program could be updated simultaneously. Plus testing and compilation is easy in it
What do you dislike about the product?
It's slightly slow than actual mainframe. Sql editer is really bad and takes time to sync with UAT/prod regions.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Mainly banking and insurance software. Upgrades and build new features plus new products.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's a good software, however it's need upgrades and better remote desktops


    Ravi K.

Visual cobol makes Developer life easy with modernization support

  • February 03, 2022
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
MF cobol provides various easy to develop templates and tools which is very helpful for both senior and new cobol developers. Along with legacy development and changes it can also be used to integrate with latest tech stack like .net or Java
What do you dislike about the product?
Deployment of integrated solutions takes longer time in test region. Also when CI CD pipelines run for .net, Actual Mainframe cobol logs are not accurate. Needs changes to easy deployment of API services and also log capture.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Mainframe modernization of legacy code to latest .net or java. Also migrate some applications data to cloud using API framework
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Best use for legacy modernization where cobol code needs Interaction with other latest web applications having .net or java or cloud.


    Prateek G.

Review on Micro focus visual Cobol

  • January 21, 2022
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
It is very easy to Debug and edit the Cobol codes. You can easilydevelop your cobol changes in Visual studio. You can run it on windows, unix or linux basically you can say the non mainframe operating system.
What do you dislike about the product?
I think there is nothing which I dislike about this application. It is very easy to make changes in micro focus cobol programs with the help of visual studio. Please start using it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The coding pattern is little different in micro focus Cobol and you can easily use VSAM as a database in it. The codes can be easily compiled and it is very easy to find the errors in it. Debugging makes the life of developer very easy.


    Information Technology and Services

Visual COBOL from v3 to v7

  • July 14, 2021
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Great all in one tool for developing cobol, c, and where relevant scripts and jcl.
What do you dislike about the product?
High pricing per named developer. Different pricing strategy outside of US and UK. ie more expansive.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Code review, code optimization, platform migration (including cloud and containerization)
Recommendations to others considering the product:
May need high specs machine to run.


    Banking

Microfocus COBOL Review

  • December 06, 2020
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Microfocus COBOL is same as legacy COBOL but it does provide an IDE environment which is easy to work with.

It's an English like language that makes it very easy to understand and still widely used with mainframes system using microfocus with Unix servers
What do you dislike about the product?
No support to object oriented programming, it's only a structured language.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's a very simple and strong language that is still widely used with mainframes which supports 80 percent of banks and insurance till date.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Microfocus is definitely an alternate to systems which are not that portable on distributed applications