Hi everyone,
Welcome to Rocket® ACUCOBOL® Fuel, your monthly source for all things ACUCOBOL. This edition covers a potential solution to skills shortage in the ACUCOBOL industry, ACUCOBOL x GenAI Demo, and the list of supported platforms.
Bridging Skills Gaps for the ACUCOBOL teams
Many organizations are facing a familiar set of challenges: retiring specialists, limited documentation, and ongoing difficulties hiring and onboarding new ACUCOBOL talent. In this environment, full system rewrites can seem appealing. In practice, however, rewrites often take years to complete, and nearly half exceed their original budgets and timelines,
making them a costly and high-risk path forward.
As GenAI capabilities continue to evolve, they offer a promising way to address ACUCOBOL skills gaps. With upcoming GenAI features in Rocket ACUCOBOL products, along with existing third-party AI tools, developers from any background can more easily navigate, understand, and analyze ACUCOBOL codebases of any size or complexity.
These technologies are already helping teams simplify hiring, speed onboarding, and support cross-training, improving maintainability today while supporting long-term sustainability.
Watch the ACUCOBOL x GenAI Demo to see how third-party GenAI tools can be applied to ACUCOBOL development and stay tuned for updates on upcoming GenAI capabilities in Rocket ACUCOBOL products.
COBOL Day in Milan
We hosted the Rocket Software Future of COBOL event in the heart of Milan on April 14. COBOL Day brought together members of our ACUCOBOL community to share experiences, learn from each other’s modernization journeys, and explore the future of Rocket ACUCOBOL products.
The real highlight was hearing from STUDIOFARMA, who shared their real‑world modernization journey and valuable lessons learned.
Stay tuned for more COBOL Days to come!
Extend your ACUCOBOL applications with supported platforms & integrations
Explore a comparison chart highlighting supported platform for Rocket® ACUCOBOL® extend 10.0 and Rocket® ACUCOBOL® extend 11.0.
Learn more about supported:
- Operating systems
- Containerization services
- Cloud platforms
- Databases
- UI/UX tools
- Deployment options
and more.
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