Mainframe & COBOL Services
Mainframe Solution Design
We research your issues, formulate technical plans, determine the systems and programming changes needed, and document our recommendations for your approval.
Why it matters
Evidence before you commit budget
Big decisions about core systems deserve evidence, not slideware. Before you commit budget, we help you understand the options, the risks and the real effort involved.
Where it matters, we prove a design on realistic traffic before you fund it, and we modernize one workload at a time rather than all at once.
What we do
What's included
- Research and diagnosis of your issues
- Technical plans and change definitions
- Written options analysis before hard decisions
- Proofs of concept on realistic production traffic
- Plans that hand off to our mainframe modernization services
- Documented recommendations for your approval
In practice
Questions we help answer
- Can we meet this mandate inside the platform we already run?
- What would we gain by moving this workload to a new data platform?
- How do we integrate two platforms after a merger?
- What is the safest path for a cryptographic or HSM change?
- What should we fix first to make this system reliable?
How we work
Not a body shop. Not a slide consultancy.
Senior only
Experienced engineers with deep mainframe backgrounds. The engineers named in the scope do the work.
Fixed scope, fixed fee
Every engagement is scoped in writing and priced before week one, with milestone billing.
Change as little of the core as possible
We work in the I/O modules and copybooks, keep your business logic, and prove changes before cutover.
U.S. team
U.S. citizens on U.S. payroll. No offshore handoff.
Engagement models
Flexible ways to work together
On-site
In person at your locations.
Remote
Flexible and lower cost.
Short- or long-term
For as long as you need us.
Fixed-scope
Contract programming as a defined project.
Platforms
Where we work
- z/OS
- CICS
- DB2
- IMS
- JCL
- VSAM
- iSeries / RPG
Pair it with AI for COBOL
Local AI that helps your team understand and document COBOL systems, inside your perimeter.
FAQ
Mainframe solution design: FAQ
What do we get from a solution design engagement?
Research and diagnosis of your issues, technical plans and change definitions, a written options analysis, and documented recommendations for your approval.
What happens after the design?
When you are ready to act, our mainframe modernization services carry out the plan one workload at a time, proven before cutover.
Hire COBOL programmers for your mainframe project.
U.S.-based COBOL engineers, on-site or remote, short-term, long-term or as a fixed-scope contract project.