Mainframe workloads supported on Azure

The solutions listed here can help you migrate your mainframe workload to Microsoft Azure. Some workloads can be migrated with relative ease. Other workloads that depend on legacy system software can be rehosted.

For more help with mainframe emulation and services, refer to the Azure Mainframe Migration center.

Migrate mainframe closer to Azure

• ASNA Visual RPG for .NET compiler for the .NET Framework via Visual Studio plug-in.
• Asysco AMT COBOL development environment (Unisys, IBM mainframes, and other COBOL dialects such as Micro Focus COBOL).
• Asysco AMT GO cloud-based deployment architecture for high-end workloads.
• Asysco AMT Transform for converting data, code, scripting, security, interfaces and other mainframe artifacts.
• Fujitsu NetCOBOL development and integration tools.
• Micro Focus Visual COBOL development and integration tools.
• Micro Focus PL/I legacy compiler for the .NET platform, supporting mainframe PL/I syntax, data types, and behavior.
• Micro Focus Enterprise Server mainframe integration platform.
• Modern Systems CTU (COBOL-To-Universal) development and integration tools.
• NTT Data Enterprise COBOL development and integration tools.
• NTT Open PL/I legacy compiler for the .NET platform, supporting mainframe PL/I syntax, data types, and behavior.
• Raincode COBOL compiler development and integration tools.
• Raincode PL/I compiler for the .NET platform supports mainframe PL/I syntax, data types, and behavior.
• Raincode ASM370 compiler for the mainframe Assembler 370 and HLASM syntax.

Deploy an emulation environment for online and batch processing

• Asysco AMT GO deployment architecture supporting CICS, IMS, TIP, HVTIP, and other common mainframe environments.
• Micro Focus Enterprise Server mainframe integration platform.
• NTT DATA Mainframe Rehosting Development Environment native transaction processing environment.
• NTT DATA Batch Processing Environment (BPE) including JCL transaction capabilities.
• Raincode CICS emulator for .NET and Azure platforms.
• Raincode JCL plug-compatible JCL interpreter.

Code conversion

• Asysco system conversion technology covering source code, data, batch, scheduling, TP monitors, interfaces, security, management, and more.
• Asysco AMT Services end-to-end services for migration projects, including inventory and analysis, design training, dress rehearsals, go-live, and post-migration support.
• Heirloom Computing services to convert mainframe COBOL, CICS, and VSAM to Java.

Modernization services

Microsoft partners with global system integrators (GSIs) who can help large organizations design, build, and manage solutions.

• Azure Mainframe Migration center