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Extracting and Explaining Business Functions from COBOL
  • Aug 16, 2025

Extracting and Explaining Business Functions from COBOL

Your COBOL systems support the most critical objectives of your business. Phase Change Software LLC's COBOL Colleague captures institutional knowledge automatically by slicing your code to reveal complete business functions—every derivation, condition, and dependency that influences each output field. Instead of spending months documenting systems, our AI extracts […]

How short-term maintenance practices can double application size in 5 years
  • Dec 11, 2019

How short-term maintenance practices can double application size in 5 years

Software must evolve to stay effective, which makes application maintenance a persistent and growing obligation, especially for organizations with large, legacy systems. Changing marketplaces, compliance updates, security patches, hardware improvements, bug fixes, and process updates all drive code changes. In his book, Building Maintainable Software: Ten Guidelines for Future-Proof Code, Software Improvement Group Co-founder and […]