Four thousand COBOL programs. Where do we start if we modernize one process?

We have about four thousand COBOL programs. Leadership wants one business process modernized, not a rewrite. Where do we actually start?

Start from the business operation, not from a program count. [[product:ol-atomiq|OL AtomIQ]] identifies operations and suggests domains so you can draw a boundary around one process. Import the source that holds that process, save the operations, and only then decide what to specify and what stays on the host. A full inventory is context. It is not the first deliverable.