But businesses that have critical existing COBOL applications, are not exempt from a digital transformation mandate. To start this journey, COBOL applications have to leave their legacy zone and open up for integration into a company's entire software landscape. fccFrameWork is the toolset to protect company's investments and support this transformation approach by keeping COBOL as the development platform.
fccFrameWork is designed to support real COBOL Application Modernizing rather than running complex, risky, and long-lasting redevelopment projects or just translating COBOL code into Java or C++.
Modernization using fccFrameWork is related to a bunch of ready-to-use application modules providing Audit Trail, Authentication, Communication (E-Mail, SMS), Branding, different data storage models (Cobol file system, c-treeRTG, SQL Databases), Job Control, Menu System, Multi-Language incl. translation engine, Multi-Tenancy, Online Help, Usage Metering, and many more. As a result, customers can focus on maintaining their proven business processes and rules implemented in COBOL.
And as fccFrameWork is created and maintained with modern COBOL development environments generating Java bytecode, the resulting runtime is hardware / OS agnostic and all functions & features are natively callable from customer COBOL applications but are also provided as methods for usage outside COBOL environments.