Product Updates

What’s new in Application Modernization & Connectivity  

Helping our customers build for the future through smarter modernization

The latest OpenTextCloud Editions includes updates to AMC’s COBOL, Enterprise Suite and Host Connectivity offerings – designed to support IT leaders in their continuous application modernization journey. Check out the latest updates below.

July 2023: What’s new in Micro Focus™ Visual COBOL and Micro Focus™ Enterprise Suite 

New extensions to the COBOL programming language and a new Micro Focus™ COBOL Fundamentals course with digital certification 

The latest updates to Visual COBOL 9.0 and Enterprise Suite 9.0 further support OpenText’s commitment to innovation with new capabilities for COBOL development, a new educational courseware offering enabling the next generation of talent, and new mainframe modernization capabilities that expand the reach and scale of digital transformation projects within your enterprise.  

New on-demand, video-based Micro Focus™ COBOL Fundamentals courseware is available to customers and the community.  

Combined highlights include:  

  • New on-demand, video-based Micro Focus™ COBOL Fundamentals courseware available to customers and the community.  
  • New COBOL language syntax which enables easier integration with Java and makes COBOL more accessible to the next generation of developers.  
  • New testing tools for mainframe applications enabling easier adoption of Agile and DevOps practices.   
  • New Enterprise Analyzer offering (Technical Preview) – now available on Linux and ready for cloud deployments.  
  • Feature development across all developer toolsets including Visual Studio Code, providing customers with the very best experience for enterprise application development.
  • Certification and testing across all major platforms and support for new Linux distributions, extending customer choice on- and off-cloud.  

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July 2023: What’s new in OpenText Verastream Host Integrator and OpenText Host Access for the Cloud  

Latest updates to OpenText Verastream Host Integrator 

Providing scalable, reliable mainframe automation deployments 

Verastream Host Integrator screenshot
  • Market preview for Kubernetes integration for mainframe automation. 
  • Containerization and orchestration support for Verastream Host Integrator (VHI).  
  • VHI is used to automate mainframe greenscreens as APIs which can be used by standard tools, such as RPA engines or web applications. 
  • Containerization and orchestration support for VHI.  

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Latest updates to OpenText Host Access for the Cloud 

Enabling reliable and secure host application access to critical business applications 

Host Access for the Cloud Appliance Administration
  • Host Access for the Cloud Virtual Software Appliance. 
  • Our market leading zero footprint, host access solution now offered as a software appliance for critical mainframe, AS/400, 3270, Linux, UNIX, Unisys, and Airlines applications. 
  • Enables customers of any size to simplify their provisioning, operations and maintenance of their Host Access for the Cloud infrastructure for both Cloud and Off-Cloud deployments. 
  • Reliable and secure host application access to critical mainframe business applications. 

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Ed Airey

Ed Airey leads product marketing strategy and messaging for COBOL application modernization—from mainframe to cloud.

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