Orion Governance Supports COBOL
COBOL Description:
COBOL is an easy-to-learn, standard language that can be compiled and executed on a variety of computers. It supports a wide syntax vocabulary and features an uncluttered coding style. It is primarily used in company and government business, finance, and administrative systems. This language also used as a solution to many data processing problems.

COBOL Support Includes:
- Job to Job Lineage
- Job to Program Lineage
- Support for lineage through utilities like Easytrieve
- Detailed lineage including process, paras and steps
- Rolled up lineage that allows for mapping field level details to show critical data element flow between DASD files and Jobs and between Jobs and Jobs.
- IBM
- HP Non-Stop
- Fujitsu
Orion Governance and COBOL FAQ
“Tool has very good capabilities, and can work on many different types of code. We use it on PL1, Cobol and SQL. What we like best is the wide range of code it can work on.”
CTO, Banking Industry
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