Rocket Visual COBOL (formerly a Micro Focus product) Reviews & Product Details

The best thing about microfocus visual cobol is it's integration with various RDBMS and ability to get deployed on various OS which helps to reuse the cobol code efficiently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes I have faced performance issues with microfocus when I was trying to run integrated cobol applications and system was taking the maximum CPU usage. This may impact efficiency of the application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MF cobol provides various easy to develop templates and tools which is very helpful for both senior and new cobol developers. Along with legacy development and changes it can also be used to integrate with latest tech stack like .net or Java Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Deployment of integrated solutions takes longer time in test region. Also when CI CD pipelines run for .net, Actual Mainframe cobol logs are not accurate. Needs changes to easy deployment of API services and also log capture. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is very easy to Debug and edit the Cobol codes. You can easilydevelop your cobol changes in Visual studio. You can run it on windows, unix or linux basically you can say the non mainframe operating system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think there is nothing which I dislike about this application. It is very easy to make changes in micro focus cobol programs with the help of visual studio. Please start using it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

easy to learn, business oriented capabilities, universality, easy to read, modify and debug. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

the time required to compile a cobol program might be greater than with a machine oriented programming language. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One of the best Products within other enterprise softwares with highly good features and ease of using Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Logs have limited accuracy to identify root cause and deployment timing is more Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Multiply program could be updated simultaneously. Plus testing and compilation is easy in it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's slightly slow than actual mainframe. Sql editer is really bad and takes time to sync with UAT/prod regions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

. And especially for young developers who are used to eclipse IDP are more comfortable as the interface is quite similar. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Few mainframe functions are limitations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ease of use and support available from the team Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Unit testing framework seems to be still under development Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Great all in one tool for developing cobol, c, and where relevant scripts and jcl. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

High pricing per named developer. Different pricing strategy outside of US and UK. ie more expansive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Microfocus COBOL is same as legacy COBOL but it does provide an IDE environment which is easy to work with.

It's an English like language that makes it very easy to understand and still widely used with mainframes system using microfocus with Unix servers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

No support to object oriented programming, it's only a structured language. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.