Dev House Norway

COBOL Application Development and Modernisation Norway

Hundreds of billions of lines of COBOL still power the world’s most critical financial, banking, and government systems, and secure access to certified COBOL engineers is essential. Dev House Norway bridges the digital talent gap, enabling Norwayn organisations to maintain, extend, and future-proof their legacy core applications with absolute confidence. Anchored by our parent company’s 14+ years of globally proven IT delivery, we secure and modernise your mission-critical mainframe infrastructures.

Secure and Future-Proof Your Critical COBOL Infrastructure

Our Mainframe and COBOL Engineering Services

Dev House Norway empowers financial institutions and government departments to secure their core assets. With decades of cumulative experience, our senior software engineers support your legacy solutions across the entire lifecycle, ensuring exceptional operational stability and compliance.

Mainframe Application Development

We design and build robust mainframe software applications that process high-speed transaction volumes, execute massive calculations, and provide fault-tolerant multitasking for mission-critical operations.

COBOL Application Testing

Avoid operational disruptions with exhaustive testing procedures. We execute structured regression, integration, and security audits to eliminate execution bottlenecks and ensure performance stability.

COBOL Application Deployment

We manage compilation, system configuration, and release cycles, ensuring your mainframe updates are deployed swiftly with zero downtime or threat to core database records.

COBOL Maintenance

We actively maintain legacy codebases, resolving performance anomalies and implementing new logic structures to meet evolving banking and regulatory guidelines, regardless of system complexity.

COBOL Migration Services

We execute secure, risk-mitigated migrations, transferring data definitions (Copybooks), files, and database connections from legacy COBOL environments to modern distributed platforms or cloud networks.

COBOL Technical Support

Ensure round-the-clock operational safety with dedicated support services. Our engineers deliver responsive troubleshooting, database optimisation, and support for your mainframe systems.

Why COBOL Remains Vital for Norwayn Enterprises

Initially introduced in 1959, COBOL has systematically evolved and continues to support core fintech, healthcare, and public sector computing. Here are the core strategic advantages of this resilient programming language:

Global Business Standard

COBOL remains deeply embedded in the operations of major global financial entities and credit systems. Its unparalleled mathematical precision and file-handling efficiency make it irreplaceable for high-throughput batch processing.

Exceptional Readability

COBOL features a highly structured, self-documenting English-like syntax. By avoiding complex structures like pointers or implicit memory management, it enables stable maintenance cycles.

Modern Integration Capabilities

Modern COBOL compiles into managed code, integrating seamlessly with Java, C#, Docker containers, .NET, and cloud services (AWS and Azure) to leverage modern interoperability.

Platform-Agnostic Portability

We build COBOL applications that are highly portable, compiling cleanly across major platforms and operating systems, including enterprise Linux and UNIX servers, without code alterations.

COBOL Toolsets and Compilation Environments

Dev House Norway utilises robust development tools and compilers to optimise legacy software. Our certified engineers leverage modern development IDEs to improve maintenance speeds and secure mainframe code.

Visual Studio

An integrated development environment that links with modern COBOL compilers to build native applications using managed .NET frameworks and clean build tools.

Visual Studio Code

A lightweight, highly extensible code editor. We use it for fast code refactoring, intelligent syntax highlighting, automated linting, and integrated Git version control.

GnuCOBOL

A robust transcompiler that translates COBOL code into highly optimised native C executables, compatible with Linux, macOS, and Windows server environments.

OpenCobolIDE

A specialised, lightweight development suite designed for GnuCOBOL compilation, providing developers with clear syntax visualisation and rapid PIC field offset calculations.

SQL/DB2

We design and optimise relational database connections to IBM DB2 and SQL environments, ensuring secure access, low-latency transaction processing, and data consistency under high concurrent loads.

Endevor

A comprehensive mainframe software change management system. We use Endevor to automate build processes, manage source code history, and enforce strict release governance.

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