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Rocket Visual COBOL (formerly a Micro Focus product) Overview

What is Rocket Visual COBOL (formerly a Micro Focus product)?

Visual COBOL provides COBOL development and integration tools—in your choice of Visual Studio or Eclipse—that offer programmers an unrivaled development experience.

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Visual COBOL provides COBOL development and integration tools—in your choice of Visual Studio or Eclipse—that offer programmers an unrivaled development experience.


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Rocket Software

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Rocket Software is a technology company that specializes in enterprise software solutions designed to help businesses optimize their critical infrastructure. Their products primarily focus on databases, networks, and applications, providing a broad range of functionalities like data management, application modernization, and cloud services. Rocket Software aims to empower companies to transform their legacy systems into dynamic and innovative platforms that drive efficiency and competitive advantage. They serve a variety of industries including banking, healthcare, manufacturing, and government.

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Recent Rocket Visual COBOL (formerly a Micro Focus product) Reviews

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Verified UserEnterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Very user friendly"
. And especially for young developers who are used to eclipse IDP are more comfortable as the interface is quite similar.
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Verified UserEnterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Positive Review"
Ease of use and support available from the team
Abhishek K.
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Abhishek K.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Micro focus visual COBOL experience"
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 ...

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13 Rocket Visual COBOL (formerly a Micro Focus product) Reviews

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Abhishek K.
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What do you like best about Rocket Visual COBOL (formerly a Micro Focus 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rocket Visual COBOL (formerly a Micro Focus 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Rocket Visual COBOL (formerly a Micro Focus product):

If you are looking to modernize your mainframe application, microfocus visual cobol is your go to product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Rocket Visual COBOL (formerly a Micro Focus 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ravi K.
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What do you like best about Rocket Visual COBOL (formerly a Micro Focus 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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rocket Visual COBOL (formerly a Micro Focus 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Rocket Visual COBOL (formerly a Micro Focus product):

Best use for legacy modernization where cobol code needs Interaction with other latest web applications having .net or java or cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Rocket Visual COBOL (formerly a Micro Focus 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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Rocket Visual COBOL (formerly a Micro Focus 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rocket Visual COBOL (formerly a Micro Focus 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Rocket Visual COBOL (formerly a Micro Focus 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Diksha G.
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What do you like best about Rocket Visual COBOL (formerly a Micro Focus product)?

easy to learn, business oriented capabilities, universality, easy to read, modify and debug. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rocket Visual COBOL (formerly a Micro Focus product)?

the time required to compile a cobol program might be greater than with a machine oriented programming language. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Rocket Visual COBOL (formerly a Micro Focus 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Rocket Visual COBOL (formerly a Micro Focus product) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Writing logical formulas in complex business calculations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rajat J.
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One of the best Products within other enterprise softwares with highly good features and ease of using Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rocket Visual COBOL (formerly a Micro Focus product)?

Logs have limited accuracy to identify root cause and deployment timing is more Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Rocket Visual COBOL (formerly a Micro Focus product) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Help to optimise applications and development Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Insurance
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What do you like best about Rocket Visual COBOL (formerly a Micro Focus product)?

Multiply program could be updated simultaneously. Plus testing and compilation is easy in it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rocket Visual COBOL (formerly a Micro Focus product)?

It's slightly slow than actual mainframe. Sql editer is really bad and takes time to sync with UAT/prod regions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Rocket Visual COBOL (formerly a Micro Focus product):

It's a good software, however it's need upgrades and better remote desktops Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Rocket Visual COBOL (formerly a Micro Focus product) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Mainly banking and insurance software. Upgrades and build new features plus new products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Banking
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What do you like best about Rocket Visual COBOL (formerly a Micro Focus product)?

. And especially for young developers who are used to eclipse IDP are more comfortable as the interface is quite similar. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rocket Visual COBOL (formerly a Micro Focus product)?

Few mainframe functions are limitations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Rocket Visual COBOL (formerly a Micro Focus product) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Before compilation error are displayed or suggested. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Insurance
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What do you like best about Rocket Visual COBOL (formerly a Micro Focus product)?

Ease of use and support available from the team Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rocket Visual COBOL (formerly a Micro Focus product)?

Unit testing framework seems to be still under development Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Rocket Visual COBOL (formerly a Micro Focus product):

Nothing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Rocket Visual COBOL (formerly a Micro Focus product) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Insurance business rules Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
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What do you like best about Rocket Visual COBOL (formerly a Micro Focus product)?

Great all in one tool for developing cobol, c, and where relevant scripts and jcl. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rocket Visual COBOL (formerly a Micro Focus product)?

High pricing per named developer. Different pricing strategy outside of US and UK. ie more expansive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Rocket Visual COBOL (formerly a Micro Focus product):

May need high specs machine to run. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Rocket Visual COBOL (formerly a Micro Focus product) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Code review, code optimization, platform migration (including cloud and containerization) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Banking
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What do you like best about Rocket Visual COBOL (formerly a Micro Focus 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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rocket Visual COBOL (formerly a Micro Focus product)?

No support to object oriented programming, it's only a structured language. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Rocket Visual COBOL (formerly a Micro Focus product):

Microfocus is definitely an alternate to systems which are not that portable on distributed applications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Rocket Visual COBOL (formerly a Micro Focus 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.