Modernization Risk
Reduction

For decades, your mainframe applications have been the backbone of your business. Built and optimized by highly specialized developers, these systems have evolved over time—leveraging the raw performance of the platform and relying on niche languages, utilities, and third-party tools to meet ever-changing business demands.

But now those experts are retiring. And the new generation of mainframe professionals are rare, expensive and often lack the depth of experience—or company-specific knowledge—required to maintain these mission-critical systems.

Many organizations are left with applications they’re afraid not just to tinker with, but to even look at. What if opening the mysterious black box reveals a mess of problems? Does it really work, or is it fundamentally broken?

CloudFrame’s CodeNavigator reduces modernization risk by delivering a comprehensive application analysis—essentially reverse engineering your COBOL systems:

• Full technical and business logic documentation
  
• Dependency and impact analysis
  
• AI Subject Matter Expert (SME) support to guide understanding
  
• Prioritization recommendations based on effort, complexity, and ROI
  
  

This ensures you have complete visibility into your applications—before any code is transformed—allowing you to confidently identify risks and plan effectively. No more Schrodinger’s Mainframe.

Once applications are prioritized, CodeNavigator transforms your COBOL, DB2, and VSAM programs into clean, human-readable Java—ready to be maintained by modern Java teams. There’s no proprietary framework, no vendor lock-in, and no black-box logic.

You choose the deployment model—cloud, on-premise, or even back on the Z platform.

With CodeNavigator, you reduce risk, retain control, and eliminate the dependency on increasingly scarce mainframe talent.