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ILOG Rules for COBOL: Manage Legacy Application Changes Easily
ILOG Rules for COBOL is an ILOG JRules add-on module for mainframe COBOL applications. Externalize and manage your business rules while maintaining your COBOL applications—without disruption or heavy development efforts. Use your externalized business rules as decision services within a service-oriented architecture (SOA) strategy.
ILOG Rules for COBOL makes it easy to:
- Leverage commitment in your COBOL applications
- Execute natively, with your existing application flows
- Create rules now and use them in Java and SOA later
How ILOG Rules for COBOL works
ILOG Rules for COBOL is the authoring and generation tool for your COBOL applications. It lets you author rules to generate COBOL code, and it leverages ILOG JRules' capabilities for auditing, versioning and creating meta data for all the rules you use for ILOG Rules for COBOL.
Quickly make changes to your rules in ILOG Rules for COBOL and regenerate the COBOL code for execution on the mainframe.
Scope your first set of rules based on a variety of factors, such as a business function within a mainframe application, a set of rules for a specific geographical region or territory, or by a specific type of customer, etc.
How to use ILOG Rules for COBOL
All you need to start managing your rules from your COBOL code is a COBOL copybook to identify the input and output fields, along with the rules you need to manage.
There are four basic steps:
- Import the COBOL copybook
- Map the COBOL copybook to the business object model (BOM) methods
- Author the business rules
- Generate the COBOL code
More information
Learn more about how ILOG JRules can help you increase agility throughout the enterprise:
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