Kuscos
Whether you are wanting to know what was added to that legacy Cobol system back in the 90s, or looking for advanced techniques to better manage your ongoing C# development project, Kuscos is the software intelligence platform of choice. For development teams, managers and executives, Kuscos delivers key information regarding source code modules and team members, from design documentation to dependencies, duplicate code and quality rule violations. Kuscos also provides oversight of team activities, from repository commits to issues resolved. Better still, the same platform does this across more than 16 legacy and modern software languages. As we pointed out in our earlier post, and according to the Standish Group, over the past 5 years only 29% of software projects could be described as successful (meeting time, budget and functionality goals). Improvements over time have been minimal despite increases in code development efficiencies and design processes
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Cody
Cody, Sourcegraph’s AI code assistant goes beyond individual dev productivity, helping enterprises achieve consistency and quality at scale with AI.
Unlike traditional coding assistants, Cody understands the entire codebase, enabling deeper contextual awareness for smarter autocompletions, refactoring, and AI-driven code suggestions. It integrates with IDEs like VS Code, Visual Studio, Eclipse, and JetBrains, providing inline editing and chat without disrupting workflows. Cody also connects with tools like Notion, Linear, and Prometheus to enhance development context. Powered by advanced LLMs like Claude Sonnet 4 and GPT-4o, it optimizes speed and performance based on enterprise needs, and is always adding the latest AI models. Developers report significant efficiency gains, with some saving up to six hours per week and doubling their coding speed.
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IBM Developer for z Systems
IBM® Developer for z/OS® (IDz) is a modern, robust toolset for developing and maintaining IBM z/OS applications through the use of DevOps practices. It helps you deliver more, faster, with better quality and greater agility. IBM Developer for z/OS, formerly Rational Developer for z Systems (RDz), offers COBOL, PL/I, High Level Assembler, REXX, C/C++, JCL, and JavaTM development tools on an Eclipse base. With Enterprise Edition, developers have the option to choose Microsoft VS Code or Red Hat(R) CodeReady Workspaces for their daily z/OS development work. IBM z/OS application development tools offer a simple to use, intuitive user interface. A fully integrated debugger provides developers the ability to test, examine, monitor, and control the execution of programs in context. Modern editors appeal to new mainframe developers, while ISPF style editors offer navigation that is familiar to traditional mainframe developers.
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FairCom RTG
FairCom RTG modernizes COBOL and Btrieve applications by seamlessly replacing their native file systems with FairCom's advanced database engine, enhancing reliability, scalability, and performance without altering existing code. It enables real-time read/write access to live data through modern APIs, including JSON and SQL, facilitating business analytics and reporting without additional coding. With features like hot backups, automatic recovery, and ACID-compliant transactions, data integrity and uptime are significantly improved. FairCom RTG supports vertical scaling to thousands of users and horizontal scaling through replication for reporting, failover, and availability. The latest version introduces a JSON DB API, allowing simple JSON commands to manage COBOL data, and Hot Alter Table functionality for immediate schema modifications without rewriting records.
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