Connecting COBOL to the Now

Whether you’re looking to modernize your COBOL application or integrate it with your other systems for BI and analytics tools, FairCom RTG can help—without changing your source code.

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Build upon your COBOL investments

You’ve invested decades into your COBOL applications. Don’t throw away that hard work. RTG builds on top of that foundation—combining the robust batch processing of classic COBOL with modern APIs.

No Source Code Modification

Having trouble finding COBOL devs to add new functionality? FairCom RTG can help. As a standard file handler, RTG supports your existing runtimes, allowing modern APIs to interact with existing COBOL data.

Real-Time SQL Access

Business intelligence can be the difference between stagnation and leading the market. Quickly and easily query COBOL data for reporting and analytics (without data normalization!).

Scalability & Availability

Vertically scale to thousands of users and hundreds of thousands of tables. Horizontally scale with replication for reporting, failover, and availability.

Eliminate Data Corruption

RTG keeps your data safe with ACID-compliant transactions when you need them. And with hot backups and automatic recovery after system failures, you’ll never have to rebuild files manually again.

Secure Your Data

Protect your COBOL data, whether at rest or in flight, with AES encryption and OpenSSL. Industry-standard X.509 certificate pairs keep your authentication credentials safe, protecting command-line utility operations.

Set it, Forget It

Minimal DBA requirements mean RTG practically runs itself—giving you more time to focus on your business. Add in its high-availability replication and disaster recovery to keep your work minimal even after disruptions.

COBOL by the Numbers

92%

of IT leaders using COBOL consider it ‘strategic with future IT strategy’

$5T

is currently invested in COBOL staff and technology

90%

of Fortune 500 companies rely on COBOL

800B+

lines of COBOL in use (and it's growing exponentially!)

Write modules
in modern languages

RTG lets you augment your COBOL applications using modern languages like Java, JSON, and Python. Let your devs work in the language they know best.

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Let us guide you through RTG

Sometimes, it’s best to learn from the experts. Reach out to us to set up a personalized demo of RTG. We’re happy to guide you through how RTG could modernize your non-mainframe COBOL application.

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Key features

Hot Alter Table

Minimize disruptions with concurrent table access during alterations. There’s no need to lock entire tables for schema changes.

DB Notify

RTG allows change data capture with DB Notify. Publish changes as JSON messages that can be pushed into any system you need.

Partitioned Files

Partitioning adds a number of benefits to your applications. Quickly purge or archive data ranges at a large scale.

Replication

Keep data accessible and resilient with replication. RTG’s replication solutions give you high availability, disaster recovery, and horizontal scalability.

Hot Backups

Ensure uninterrupted operations with hot backups. Schedule backups in advance and always have a backup copy available for testing, QA, and data recovery.

Database Quiesce for SAN Snapshots

Temporarily suspend server operations to perform system maintenance, such as SAN snapshots, without taking your application offline. SAN snapshots can quickly be brought online when needed for data recovery.

Scale to millions of records each hour

InfoTrax needed to modernize its e-commerce solutions, but it couldn’t sacrifice high throughput. RTG added stability, scalability, and SQL access while maintaining performance.

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