Micro Focus Mainframe Express 6.007

Micro Focus Mainframe Express, developed by Micro Focus International Limited, is an integrated development and testing environment that brings IBM mainframe application development to Windows. It enables COBOL teams to edit, compile, build, and debug mainframe programs locally while emulating key z/OS components. By providing high-fidelity behavior for batch and online workloads, it helps developers validate changes off-host, reduce mainframe MIPS consumption, and accelerate delivery.

Key capabilities include:

• Mainframe-compatible COBOL compilation and interactive debugging (Animator)
• Local execution of MVS-style JCL in a JES-like environment for batch testing
• Emulation of CICS and IMS transaction processing for online application testing
• Support for embedded SQL (DB2) via Micro Focus precompilers and test connectivity
• VSAM data set support and data file tools for browsing, editing, and generating test data
• Code coverage and performance profiling to improve quality and optimize runtime behavior
• Project and workspace management with EBCDIC/ASCII handling and integration with common source control systems
• Compatibility features aligned with IBM LE/370 semantics to ease migration and maintenance

Mainframe Express is typically used to speed maintenance, modernization, and parallel development efforts by enabling comprehensive, host-compatible testing on a PC. It is designed for development and test purposes and is not a production runtime.

Micro Focus Mainframe Express is developed by Micro Focus International Limited. The most popular versions of this product among our users are: 2.0, 2.5, 3.0 and 6.0. The names of program executable files are MFE.EXE, MFEENVG.EXE and ProGr.exe.