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Enterprise Inventory Intelligence · IBM z/OS

We unlock the logic inside your systems.

Complete visibility and control over inventory, assets, and operational data across your mainframe estate — without replacing the systems you depend on.

scan_trace.log
DETECTPAYROLL.COBOL01 → COBOL
DETECTDB2.SCHEMA.CUST → DB2
DETECTJOB.NIGHTRUN → JCL
DETECTTXNMAP.CICS → CICS
XREF4 objects → 1 lineage path
RULESETapplied · explainable · audit-ready
COBOL
JCL
Directory
DB2
CICS

The problem

Your data is real. Most AI can't see it.

Inventory and operational data are often fragmented across decades of COBOL, PL/1, JCL, CICS and database definitions — making real-time insight difficult, and making most generative AI tools guess rather than know.

Black-box AI has no place in an audited, mission-critical environment. When a model can't show its working, you can't sign off on its output — and you can't hand it to a regulator.

Legacy Software takes the opposite approach: scan the estate first, structure what's found into a governed, cross-referenced model, then let rules-based AI reason over that model. The result is context an AI can actually use — and an answer your organisation can actually trust.

The approach

Four steps from raw estate to governed insight.

Built specifically for organisations running IBM z/OS, where stability, control, and auditability matter more than speed alone.

01

Connect

Integrate directly with your existing z/OS environment, accessing inventory and operational data without disruption to running systems.

02

Map

Automatically detect and scan COBOL, PL/1, JCL, CICS, DB2, IMS and 60+ other object types, showing exactly how data flows through your systems.

03

Apply rules

Custom rulesets turn the scanned model into consistent inventory insight — every output explainable and traceable back to its source.

04

Export

Navigate results directly, or export to the tools your teams already use — including Solidatus and Microsoft Purview.

Why rules-based AI

Explainable by construction, not by exception.

Every output is driven by transparent logic — ideal for enterprise control, audit, and compliance.

Black-box AI

  • Infers context from incomplete, unstructured code
  • Can't show its working when challenged
  • Confidence without traceability
  • Risk grows with every undocumented decision

Legacy Software

  • Scans and structures the full estate before reasoning over it
  • Every output traceable to source and ruleset
  • Built for audit, governance and regulatory review
  • Decades of hands-on mainframe expertise behind every rule

The Legacy Directory

Purpose-built for complex inventory challenges.

An enterprise source code scanning engine that documents your existing systems automatically — solutions delivered quickly, with minimal disruption.

60+ LANGUAGES

Automatic object detection

Detects and scans COBOL, PL/1, Assembler, DB2, IMS, JCL and CICS objects to a user-specified depth, without manual mapping.

MISSING MEMBERS

Finds lost code

Flags references — like a JCL call to a load module that no longer exists — so gaps surface before they cause a failure.

quikVU

Ask a direct question

A focused inquiry engine for people who know exactly what they need, without digging through layers of detail.

METRICS

Instant software metrics

Scans millions of lines a minute to produce complexity statistics at program, application, suite or system level.

4
decades of hands-on mainframe expertise
60+
languages, databases and job control formats supported
1 day
standard response time on enquiries
Exports to Solidatus & Microsoft Purview

Get in touch

See your estate the way your auditors need to see it.

Book a short demo and we'll show The Legacy Directory against a system that looks like yours — no disruption to production, no black box.

Emailsales@legacysoftware.co.uk
Phone+44 (0) 1931 778610
Response time1 business day
CoverageUK-based, enterprise IBM z/OS