Comprehension vs. Translation: What AI Actually Solves in COBOL Modernization
IN-COM October 13, 2026 Application Modernization, Artificial Intelligence (AI), COBOL Posts, Code Analysis, Impact AnalysisOn February 23, 2026, IBM’s share price fell 13 percent in a single day, its steepest one-day decline since October...
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Ripple Effect Analysis: Tracing a One-Line Change Through a Codebase
IN-COM October 7, 2026 Code Review, Compliance, Impact Analysis, Legacy SystemsThe commit message said “extend customer balance field precision.” The change was one line in a COBOL copybook: PIC S9(9)V99...
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Entity Relationship Diagrams from Legacy Database Schemas
IN-COM October 5, 2026 Data, Impact Analysis, Industries, Legacy SystemsConnect SchemaSpy to a modern PostgreSQL database and it produces a complete ERD in minutes: every table, every column, every...
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Dependency Wheel Diagrams for Enterprise Application Portfolios
IN-COM October 1, 2026 Application Modernization, Applications, Compliance, Enterprise Modernization, Impact Analysis Software, Legacy SystemsThe architecture review board has a network graph. It was built from the CMDB eighteen months ago, manually updated three...
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Big Bang vs. Incremental Modernization: A Decision Framework
IN-COM September 28, 2026 Application Modernization, Code Analysis, Compliance, Data Modernization, Enterprise Modernization, Impact Analysis, Information TechnologyEvery consultant will tell you incremental is safer. They are right, and they are also telling you what is always...
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Dual-Run Strategies: Running Legacy and Modern Systems in Parallel
IN-COM September 23, 2026 Enterprise Modernization, Impact Analysis, Industries, Information Technology, Legacy Systems, Refactoring61% of migration projects exceed planned timelines by 40 to 100%. The most common cause is not technical complexity. It...
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