Use case
Modernise from a map your agents and engineers share
Lineage and meaning from mainframe code, so modernisation agents and engineers work from the same verified map — before, during and after migration.
The situation
Decades of COBOL carry your core business logic, and the people who wrote it are gone. Every modernisation programme starts with the same problem: nobody can say with confidence what the estate does, what feeds what, and what a change will break.
What Semantic Scout does about it
Lineage from mainframe assets
COBOL programs, datasets, and jobs mapped into the same column-level lineage graph as your modern platforms. One estate, one view — not a mainframe diagram beside a cloud diagram.
COBOL explained through chat
Ask what a program does, what a field means, or where a value comes from, and get an answer grounded in the code itself rather than in documentation nobody has updated since 2009.
The path, not the possibilities
Legacy flows are full of run-time decisions. Scout’s lineage reflects them, so you see where a value actually goes rather than everything that might have contributed — the difference between an answer you can act on and one that merely looks like one.
Migration de-risking
Impact analysis that shows exactly which flows, reports, and downstream systems each migration step touches — the evidence auditors and steering groups actually accept.
Proof
A Nordic bank licenses Semantic Scout for exactly this: business lineage across mainframe and modern platforms, COBOL understanding through chat, and support for mainframe migration.
Customer names are withheld by agreement. Roles and industries are accurate.
Other use cases
Context for compliance
Evidence-backed lineage for BCBS 239, DORA, GDPR and the EU AI Act — for figures produced by people and by agents alike.
Read moreContext for engineering agents
Coding and data-engineering agents see what a column means, what depends on it and what a change will break — across legacy and modern systems.
Read moreData stewardship
AI-assisted descriptions, tags and cross-platform lineage, so stewards review the context agents rely on instead of authoring it by hand.
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Bring one COBOL program to the demo
Leave the call with its lineage and its explanation. That is usually enough to know whether this works on your estate.