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Micro Focus APS
Micro Focus APS is a development environment for creating mainframe applications, batch and online, using IMS/TM, CICS, and data that resides in VSAM, DB2 or IMS/DB. APS generates 100% native code with no proprietary runtime support.
With over one billion lines of code running in production daily, APS delivers high quality, high performance applications.
Highlights
- Increases developer productivity by 40 percent.
- Builds COBOL applications with outstanding performance.
- Delivers reliable applications with no proprietary run-time environment .
- Leverages developer skills across a wide variety of environments including CICS, IMS/TM and batch.
- Leverages mainframe data assets in VSAM, DB2 and IMS/DB without extensive developer training.
Benefits
- Increases developer productivity by letting developers focus on business functions instead of coding.
- Rapidly evolves enterprise information systems by extracting significant value from existing systems and developing complementary new components under a "best practices" framework.
- Leverages your existing investment in infrastructure, people and their skills, and your data resources.
Additional Information
Product Withdrawal Notice – this product is in the process of being withdrawn from the marketplace. Read the full Product Withdrawal notice
.
Find our more about the successor product - Mainframe Express Enterprise Edition.
This technology forms a key part of Micro Focus' strategy for mainframe application development - click here for more information.


Supporting Content
Customer Quote
"Bausparkasse Schwäbisch Hall AG and VR Kreditwerk Hamburg-Schwäbisch Hall
AG has successfully
deployed APS for z/OS 5.0
in March 2003. The effort involved for product installation, customization and testing was only 21
man-days… With this upgrade there was no
source modification or additional training for development staff required; our 80 mainframe APS programmers have not been affected by this release."
AG has successfully
deployed APS for z/OS 5.0
in March 2003. The effort involved for product installation, customization and testing was only 21
man-days… With this upgrade there was no
source modification or additional training for development staff required; our 80 mainframe APS programmers have not been affected by this release."


