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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 COBOL Code Can Benefit from Machine Learning Insight
  • Oct 24, 2022

How COBOL Code Can Benefit from Machine Learning Insight

Most dev tools are not yet capable of identifying the specific lines of code that need to be changed, and unearthing that information is hard cognitive work. While some tools can help improve productivity by suggesting what code to write, software developers still have to use their brains to add new features, fix bugs, implement […]

An AI alternative to code search tools
  • Oct 4, 2022

An AI alternative to code search tools

Would you believe that the average software developer spends roughly 75% of their time just searching through and understanding code to make necessary changes? When software engineers have to spend so much of their time just finding and understanding legacy code, before any real work gets done, they have less time to create new solutions […]

Colleague is a task-oriented tool that identifies the code that needs to be changed and helps with that change
  • Oct 4, 2022

Colleague is a task-oriented tool that identifies the code that needs to be changed and helps with that change

When organizations must make source code changes or migrate applications to alternative platforms, they frequently understand what the code does. Often, the people who wrote the code have departed the organization and someone has to learn a great deal about the code to determine which code matters. This lack of application knowledge introduces significant risk […]