Generic system integrators sell 9-month manual Excel audits with junior billable armies. Generic AI tools hallucinate arithmetic formulas and crash production batches. CobolIQ delivers precision engineering missions and compiler-grade discovery for any organization running COBOL and its legacy family — whether you run global container logistics, manufacturing ERPs, state tax revenue systems, healthcare claims, or core banking.
📋 Bidding on a major tender or planning a core system rebuild? You can hire CobolIQ as your independent Discovery Phase Specialist to de-risk fixed-price bids, generate watertight RFP specifications, and map 100% of portfolio dependencies before a single line of target code is written.
Whether you are a Systems Integrator bidding fixed-price on a competitive modernization contract, a government or enterprise buyer preparing an RFP, or an internal engineering team embarking on a core system rebuild — CobolIQ delivers complete, compiler-grade CodeTruth in 48 hours to 5 business days.
The #1 cause of catastrophic multi-million-dollar write-offs on fixed-price legacy bids is unknown complexity: 30% to 50% dead code, uncataloged third-party LOADLIB dependencies, undocumented DB2 triggers, and batch job collisions that surface only after winning.
• Exact Active LOC Baseline: Strip out dead code and duplicate copybooks before estimating man-months.
• Dependency & Clash Matrix: Map all batch JCL flows, VSAM datasets, and cross-program calls.
• Risk & Abend Profiling: Uncover hidden S0C7 data exception risks and missing source modules.
Issuing a public tender or RFP based on outdated 15-year-old documentation invites speculative bids, 300%+ cost variance across vendor responses, and predatory change requests post-award that double your project budget.
• Authoritative Functional Blueprint: Objective catalog of all active business capabilities and formulas.
• Clean Data & API Contracts: Normalized JSON Schema, OpenAPI, and Protobuf interface specs.
• Objective Acceptance Criteria: Mathematical test harnesses proving target parity before final payout.
Modernization teams frequently stall for 6 to 9 months attempting to decipher legacy spaghetti code, nested GO TO loops, and global memory side-effects before writing a single target microservice in Rust, C++, or Java.
• Algebraic Rule Extraction: Pure formulas without memory noise (MOVE SPACES) or work fields.
• Interactive Browser Visual Graph: Drill down into any module, copybook, or database table.
• Automated Parity Test Harness: Golden master data fixtures verifying 1:1 math parity.
From 30-year-old AS/400 RPG logistics hubs to z/OS PL/I, Natural/Adabas, and High-Level Assembler engines — CobolIQ provides mathematical certainty and compiler-grade discovery across every major legacy family and industry.
IBM Enterprise COBOL (z/OS, VSE), Micro Focus / OpenText, GnuCOBOL, Tandem/HP NonStop COBOL, Unisys COBOL, Fujitsu, and legacy COBOL-85 dialects.
RPG III, RPG IV, Free-format RPGLE, Control Language (CL), and DDS physical/logical file schemas driving global supply chain & discrete manufacturing.
High-precision actuarial and scientific calculations in IBM PL/I, plus Software AG Natural 4GL with full Adabas database lineage tracking.
Bare-metal IBM z/Architecture machine instructions, user exits, SVC handlers, macro expansions, and byte-level memory structures.
Batch orchestration, JCL job streams, DFSORT / SyncSort steps, Easytrieve report scripts, Rexx automations, and dataset disposition flows.
Relational and indexed legacy storage: DB2 for z/OS & IBM i, IMS/DB hierarchical trees, VSAM (KSDS, ESDS, RRDS), and QSAM/BSAM tape buffers.
Maritime shipping, container dispatch, freight rail scheduling & customs manifests on AS/400 RPG and COBOL.
Bill of materials (BOM), shop-floor MRP II, supplier inventory & plant scheduling engines.
Central inventory management, store replenishment, high-speed point-of-sale pricing & warehouse logistics.
State treasury tax assessment, social security pension disbursements, and veteran benefit adjudications.
Telecommunications CDR call rating, electric grid settlement, and smart meter time-of-use billing engines.
Health insurance claims adjudication (HIPAA EDI 837/835), hospital patient indexing & pharmaceutical logistics.
Core deposit ledgers, credit card transaction clearing, lending loan amortizations & SWIFT payment rails.
Life, property & casualty policy administration, actuarial risk tables & automated claim settlement.
We do not sell generic headcounts or open-ended hourly consulting. Every mission is a fixed-scope engagement backed by deterministic compiler proofs.
Enterprise banks and cloud programs are desperate to escape mainframe MIPS charges, but 90% of legacy migrations fail because generic LLMs and basic transpilera produce broken math. Standard Java translations generate 2,500 lines of clumsy BigDecimal boilerplate, or worse, use primitive double that drifts by cents on million-record batch runs.
Moving high-frequency batch and transaction pricing off z/OS onto Kubernetes or bare metal without altering financial results by a single cent.
In 40-year-old mainframe estates, developers over decades copy-pasted data definitions across thousands of programs: CUSTREC1, CUSTREC-NEW, CUST2008-COPY. This creates catastrophic structural redundancy, hidden slack bytes, conflicting record lengths, and maintenance paralysis where no one dares change a single column.
Mainframe portfolios with over 500,000 LOC where multiple teams developed competing variations of the same customer or transaction record.
The worst nightmare of a Chief Information Security Officer or Head of Banking Architecture: a mission-critical financial calculation or tape job has been running in production for 25 years from a compiled load module (LOADLIB), but the original .cbl or .asm source file was lost during a vendor acquisition or tape rotation disaster.
Companies running software from vendors that went out of business 20 years ago, where no source code exists on any disk or tape backup.
Traditional consulting firms (Accenture, Deloitte) charge millions and take 6 to 9 months to produce outdated PowerPoint slides and inaccurate spreadsheets. CobolIQ deploys its proprietary Rust AST engine in an air-gapped environment to extract the CodeTruth of your entire portfolio (COBOL, RPG, PL/I, Natural, HLASM, JCL) in 48 hours to 5 days — essential for de-risking fixed-price tender bids, authoring watertight RFP specifications, or launching major core architectural rebuilds.
Systems integrators preparing competitive bids, government/enterprise procurement teams issuing RFPs, or modernization teams embarking on a major core rebuild across any industry.
A single S0C7 Data Exception during a high-volume nightly batch can blow through a 4-hour batch window SLA, delay wire transfers, and incur millions in regulatory fines. We perform static taint analysis across your entire call tree to detect every uninitialized packed decimal, buffer overrun, and unhandled CICS response condition.
Financial institutions modernizing batch jobs or suffering from intermittent midnight batch failures that keep senior staff awake.
Up to 60% of monthly mainframe billable capacity (MSUs/MIPS) is wasted on file sorting (DFSORT/SYNCSORT), ASCII/EBCDIC encoding conversions, and data staging. Our mission decouples heavy batch I/O and pricing loops onto off-host commodity x86 Linux servers using coboliq-sort and memory-mapped buffers.
Financial institutions seeking massive operating expense reductions within the current fiscal quarter without undertaking a high-risk multi-year rip-and-replace.
| Dimension | Traditional Integrators (Accenture, Wipro) | Generic LLM / Cloud AI | CobolIQ Strategic Missions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to Discovery | 6 to 9 months manual reading | Fast, but context-limited and hallucinates | 48 Hours to 14 Days |
| Tender & RFP Bid Readiness | 3 to 6 months guesswork in Excel; high risk of 200% margin write-down on fixed-price bids | Context windows choke on multi-repo systems; hallucinations make pricing a coin-flip | 48h to 5-Day CodeTruth Baseline; exact LOC, dead code %, and de-risked pricing matrix |
| Multi-Stack Legacy Coverage | Siloed offshore teams with separate billing rates for COBOL, RPG, and PL/I | Shallow prompt wrappers with zero compiler or byte-level AST memory models | Unified Rust AST engine covering COBOL, RPG (AS/400), PL/I, Natural & HLASM |
| Mathematical Accuracy | Human transcription errors in Excel | Fatal float drift, loses cents on batch | 100% Bit-Exact 1:1 Parity Guarantee |
| Missing Source Code | Refuse project or bill millions to guess | Completely incapable of parsing binaries | Direct LOADLIB Binary Disassembly |
| Copybook Architecture | Leave duplicate copies, causing bugs | Cannot cross-reference 10,000 files | Automated Central Copybook Consolidation |
| Target Stacks | Only generic Java with 2,500 lines boilerplate | Unreliable syntax snippets | Rust, C++, Java, or custom on request |
| Cost & Engagement Model | Open-ended T&M ($2M–$10M+) | API token sprawl with zero accountability | Fixed Scope, Milestone Backed, Fast ROI |
Mutual non-disclosure agreement in 24 hours. We define portfolio size (LOC, copybooks, datasets) and agree on fixed milestones and delivery timeline.
Our compiler-grade AST engine scans your code locally in your secure VPC or air-gapped machine. Zero code leaves your perimeter.
Delivery of clean JSON/OpenAPI rule catalogs, parity test suites, refactored repositories, and executive sign-off presentation.
All discussions conducted under strict mutual NDA. No junior sales reps — you speak directly with senior compiler, midrange and mainframe architects.
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