Comet migrates Macro level applications to CICS Transaction Server. Regardless of applications complexity and source code availability, Comet will automatically intercept the Macro level calls and dynamically translate them to the correct Command level calls.
Comet examines your applications when they are loaded into CICS and dynamically translates all Macro level calls into Command level calls without developer intervention, source code changes and program re-linking.
With Comet your Macro level programs can run with CEDF allowing programmers to see the exact Command level statements as they execute. The exact Command level calls and the parameters that need to be used can be seen for even the most complicated Macro level programs.
Some software programs use the CICS exit XPCFTCH to dynamically attach themselves to user programs. This exit is called every time you use a program, whether that program is to be dynamically attached or not. On a normal system, the total number of program uses per day is extremely high – many million per day - and you will typically have 4.5 times more program uses than transactions run.
Comet facilitates the migration of your macro level applications to CICS Transaction Server.
Run Macro level programs under CICS/TS
Assembler, PL/I, VS/COBOL, COBOL II, and BMS Mapsets deployment
Virtual storage constraint relief
Mixed mode support
Application development tools
Macro level integrity analysis
User Exit support
IBM LE support