MANASYS Jazz
Publications
This page indexes various publications about MANASYS Jazz, together with some related COBOL-related publications.
We need software that takes aim at the real problem, complexity. Published Jan 24 2019
COBOL and the Enterprise Programming Paradigm
Think COBOL is obsolete? Read this and think again! Published 26th Feb 2019 (Author Jonathan Sayles).
MANASYS is a useful Design and Documentation Language
Even without software to compile it, MANASYS has been used as a design language. Published October 12 2018
MANASYS and Micro Focus (Video, 3m)
Both MANASYS and Micro Focus modernize COBOL, but in different and complimentary ways. Published 17th April 2019
MANASYS generates the COBOL your good programmers would write, if they had the time. Published 1st June 2019
MANASYS Jazz – Agile for COBOL
Productivity gains substantially reduce the need for writing COBOL directly, and foster an agile approach. Published 24th June 2019
Creating Test Data with MANASYS Jazz
Well-designed test data is a valuable system asset. It’s easy to create with MANASYS Jazz. Published 24th July 2019
The origins of MANASYS, and its design philosophy. Published 30th August 2019
Still the Best for High Volume Published 31st August 2019
This Planet Mainframe article by Reg
Harbeck, COBOL: Still the Best for New High-Volume
Applications After All These Years, documents what
many of us older programmers already know. There are good reasons why COBOL is
still around, and that 1.5 Billion lines of new COBOL are being written every
year.
COBOL
Will Outlive Us All Published 7th
September 2019
Posts a link
to an article by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Create CICS Web Services Quickly
and Easily Published
29th November 2019
Ready-to-consume web services,
hosted directly out of the mainframe, written by the people who understand the
data, written in minutes.
MANASYS
Jazz: Convert Easytrieve™ to COBOL in Hours, not Days Published 7th March 2021
The easiest and best way to convert
Easytrieve™ to COBOL
Why MANASYS? Published 29th March 2021
Since 1980, when the first version
of MANASYS was released, we have had a single goal: to make programming as simple
as possible without sacrificing flexibility, efficiency, or the safety of
proven technology.
MANASYS Jazz – the Low-Risk Development Option Published 13th April 2021
With Better Data Definitions and Multi-level Tools, MANASYS Jazz is the best and lowest-risk development option, reducing software and development risk by generating standard languages, and offering 1:20 or better productivity ratios in an attractive modern IDE.
CICS Web Services just got Even Easier Published 12th July 2021
MANASYS Jazz can now generate Client Interfaces for multiple records, including parent/child record sets, and can manage update for these records with CICS-style pseudo-locking. The Bridging Two Worlds video has been updated to demonstrate these features.
Aging Workforce => COBOL Crisis Published 13th September 2021
Mainframe users know that their COBOL systems are ticking time bombs as their COBOL programmers retire and can’t be replaced. Either alone or combined with Micro Focus Enterprise Developer MANASYS Jazz provides the best path to Application Modernization, offering low risk and a fraction of the cost of alternatives.
What is MANASYS Jazz? Published 11th November 2021
MANASYS Jazz is multi-level development software for mainframe users to make programming as simple as possible without losing any of the flexibility, efficiency, and safety of proven technology. This is the first of a planned 10-part series of articles about MANASYS.
How does MANASYS Work? Published 14th December 2021
The
principle “Say What, not How” inspires the way Jazz defines data. Complete
data definitions largely eliminate the need for procedural code to access, format, and validate data, giving MANASYS great
power with no loss of flexibility or efficiency.
Easytrieve Conversion. Published 7th February 2022
MANASYS Jazz is the easiest and best way of converting Easytrieve to COBOL. Easytrieve programs are similar structure to a basic report program in Jazz so conversion is easy. [Process] turns this into high quality COBOL that needs no run-time support.
Mainframe Modernization. Published 16th March 2022
Modernization projects are challenging. As well as Easytrieve Conversion, MANASYS Jazz can help with several issues including Skills (COBOL) Shortage, Discovery (Understanding Old COBOL Systems), reducing Future Legacy Issues, and Keeping Current and New Functions in Step.
Web Services: Key to Mainframe Modernization. Published 1st April 2022
Your enterprise data must be
available in the right way on the right platforms, and so mainframes must
communicate with other computers that don’t use CICS or
COBOL. "Application Modernization" doesn't mean "replace
the mainframe", it means that you require web services.
Web
Service Interfaces. Published 5th
July 2022
With 2 clicks MANASYS creates an interface to manage a web service that it has generated. Now client apps simply refer to properties and methods, as they would for other local objects, to get local validation and simple operations.
Data Transformation. Published 5th August 2022
Software upgrades often require data transformation. We built this facility for our
first customer, who later reported: -
“In using Jazz,
programs that take hours or days can be done in minutes, data mapping that
takes a day or more to complete can be done in minutes”
Why COBOL? Published 10th October 2022
As an old
language COBOL might seem the wrong choice for new programming software, but
COBOL underpins the world’s economy and will be around for the foreseeable
future. See how MANASYS Jazz helps you
to understand legacy systems, introduce new programmers to COBOL, and solve the
skills shortage, all while offering unrivalled productivity.
Programming
Bridge Applications Published
weekly from 12th February 2024
A series of
articles, starting with COBOL
Modernization, that shows you how to develop application like Bridging Two
Worlds.
Please contact us if you want more details about the changes, if you have any questions about Jazz that are not quickly answered from our web site, or if you want an evaluation copy of MANASYS Jazz.
Robert Barnes
CEO, Jazz Software Ltd
phone +64-9-418 4415
mobile +64-27-459 2702
Skype: Robert.Barnes3
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