Bridge from Mainframe.
Without Standing Still.
Kanetic-x is Kansoft's AI-driven framework for incrementally migrating COBOL, CICS, and DB2 applications to modern cloud-native architectures on Java or .NET — without bet-the-company rewrites or multi-year delivery risk.
COBOL Codebase Parsed
3.2M LOC · 412 copybooks · 187 JCL flows mapped
Service Decomposition Plan
Target: Java Spring Boot · 14 bounded contexts
COBOL → Java Transformation
61% auto-migrated · business logic preserved
Batch Reconciliation Tests
Golden master parity vs mainframe queued
Most mainframe modernization projects either run for a decade, get scrapped halfway, or end as expensive cloud-VM lift-and-shift that solves nothing. Kanetic-x is built for what actually works: strangler-fig migration with continuous parity validation.
The COBOL Skills Crisis
The engineers who built these systems are retiring faster than universities can produce COBOL graduates. Maintenance gets harder every year — and no one will be left to do it.
$1M+ / Month MIPS Costs
Mainframe pricing scales with usage. Modern cloud-native equivalents typically cost 70–90% less for the same workload — but you have to actually finish the migration to capture it.
Tightly-Coupled Batch Jobs
JCL flows orchestrate hundreds of inter-dependent jobs. One nightly cycle. No clean service boundaries. Decomposition without breaking financials is the entire problem.
Data Lock-In
DB2, IMS, VSAM, and sequential datasets carry decades of records. Migrating data while keeping the legacy system live is harder than migrating the code itself.
Compliance Stakes
Banks, insurers, government — mainframes run the most regulated workloads. Behavioural parity isn't a nice-to-have; it's an audit deliverable. Manual rewrites can't prove it.
10-Year Project Risk
Traditional mainframe rewrites overrun budgets, burn through three CTOs, and end up shelved. The risk model has to be incremental — or it doesn't ship.
Three traditional paths exist for mainframe modernization: rewrite (slow, risky), lift-and-shift (cheap, solves nothing), or replatform (somewhere in between). Kanetic-x gives you the rewrite outcome with the lift-and-shift timeline.
Each phase is informed by mainframe-specific patterns — copybooks, redefines, working storage, JCL conditional flow — not generic refactoring rules.
Discover
Parse COBOL programs, copybooks, JCL, and CICS transactions. Build a complete dependency graph.
Design
Identify natural service boundaries from existing JCL flow + business logic clusters.
Transform
COBOL logic translated to idiomatic Java or C# — preserving the business intent without inheriting the COBOL idioms.
Validate
Behavioural parity is the audit deliverable. Golden-master testing replays mainframe inputs and reconciles outputs to the cent.
From OLTP to batch, from green screens to APIs — Kanetic-x covers the full mainframe surface area.
COBOL → Java (Spring Boot)
The most common target. AI translates COBOL programs to idiomatic Java with Spring Boot, preserving business logic while modernising the runtime.
COBOL → .NET 8 / C#
For Microsoft-aligned organisations. Same translation rigor, different target — C# on .NET 8 with full ASP.NET Core API surface.
DB2 → PostgreSQL / Aurora
Schema migration, stored procedure conversion, and online CDC-based data replication for zero-downtime cutover.
JCL → Modern Orchestration
Batch job networks rewritten as event-driven workflows on Apache Airflow, AWS Step Functions, or Argo Workflows.
CICS → REST APIs
CICS transactions exposed as modern REST or gRPC services. Green screens replaced with React/Angular UIs over the same business logic.
Monolith → Microservices
Decompose a tightly-coupled mainframe monolith into bounded-context microservices. Strangler-fig sequencing keeps the lights on throughout.
A real-world example: a CICS account-inquiry transaction running on a 3270 terminal, transformed into a modern, secure, REST-driven web dashboard.
Mainframe-Era Limitations
Account Inquiry — #000045721
ActiveCloud-Native by Default
Indicative results from enterprise mainframe migrations delivered through Kanetic-x.
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Mainframe Assessment
Share representative COBOL programs, copybooks, and JCL flows. Kanetic-x will produce a phased migration plan — service decomposition, target stack, MIPS savings model, and 18-month roadmap — within 5 business days.