There’s a number of tools, apps and services to convert COBOL apps to Java syntax today, some of which are entirely automated.

A separate IBM tool has to be used to open the workbook and extract the COBOL code for a particular business service before being converted to Java, the company added. “The current prototype ...

SonarQube does this because it builds upon PMD, Findbugs and Checkstyle. It also includes other open source plugins -- such as Cobertura -- along with a good deal of custom code, to provide a static ...