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Run the screen program off the host and keep editing the COBOL

We want this CICS screen program to run off the host so we can validate it, and the team still wants to edit the COBOL. Is that a rewrite?

No. [[product:ol-next|OL Next]] moves CICS, IMS, and IBM i screen and RPC programs onto the JVM so you can play them and expose them as REST. The source you keep editing is still the COBOL or RPG. Data can stay on the host, sit in an H2 sandbox, or move later. This is replatforming the program you chose, not a rewrite of the estate.

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