General Information (PDF)
What Cobol2j is, whom it serves, the mainframe-to-Cobol2j migration path in five steps, and what the product covers. For evaluators, architects, and technical managers.
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Documentation
General Information is open to everyone. The other manuals ship with the product and are available to customers.
Architecture · Available to customers
How the platform is built, and why the data crosses over untouched.
Cobol2j Reference · Available to customers
What COBOL, online commands, JCL, utilities, and data catalog Cobol2j accepts, option by option, with return codes and limits.
Application Migration Guide · Available to customers
End-to-end migration of an application: prepare the sources, migrate, read and resolve the report, move data and files, convert JCL and batch, migrate online transactions and maps, certify, deploy, validate, and cut over.
Messages and Codes · Available to customers
Where to look up each message, abend code, RESP value, return code, status, and error string that the product emits, with its explanation, system action, and response.
Assessment · Available to customers
What the report measures, and what never leaves your building.
Data Access Guide · Available to customers
How a new attached application reads and writes migrated VSAM through an Online region.
User's Manual · Available to customers
Day-to-day IME use: migrate, deploy, terminal, and batch for programmers and operators.
Installation Guide · Available to customers
Installing Cobol2j on a Kubernetes cluster from packaged images and Helm charts.
System Administration Guide · Available to customers
Systems, regions, capacity, MRO, the VSAM catalog, upgrades, backup and diagnosis for system administrators.
Security Administrator's Guide · Available to customers
IME accounts, users of the migrated application and their authorities, what is imported from the mainframe security manager, and what you show an auditor.