Use case
Understand your mainframe — before, during, and after migration
Lineage from mainframe assets, COBOL programs explained through chat, and migration impact analysis backed by evidence.
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.
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
Regulatory compliance
Continuous, column-level lineage and PII classification that turn BCBS 239, DORA, GDPR, and EU AI Act evidence into a by-product of normal operation.
Read moreAI-ready governance
Machine-readable lineage and meaning that give agents — and the people reviewing them — governed context and one-click provenance.
Read moreData stewardship
AI-assisted descriptions, tags, and cross-platform lineage, so stewards spend their time reviewing rather than authoring.
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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.