Genesis MKE automatically maps your entire mainframe codebase into a living knowledge graph — so your teams can search, understand, and modernize with complete confidence.
70% of Fortune 500 critical workloads run on mainframe. The systems work — but nobody fully understands them. And you cannot modernize what you do not understand.
Decades of business logic buried in undocumented COBOL. Tribal knowledge that exists only in people's heads.
Without dependency maps, every modification is a gamble. Hidden connections cause cascading production failures.
Analysts spend weeks tracing code manually just to understand one business function. Analysis paralysis stops progress.
The developers who built the system are leaving — and their knowledge goes with them. Permanently.
Genesis MKE reads your codebase once and gives your entire organization the understanding it needs — on demand.
Automatically maps every COBOL program, JCL job, screen definition, database table, and copybook as a connected graph — verified against actual source code.
No COBOL knowledge required. Ask in natural language — get the exact paragraph, the program it lives in, and everything that calls it.
Auto-generate structured requirements documents for any program. Every business rule linked to the exact source line that implements it.
Before any modification, see every downstream program, data flow, and screen that will be affected. Eliminate the #1 cause of modernization failures.
Your mainframe source is private. A general model has no knowledge of your system. Without grounded facts, it guesses. Genesis MKE provides the structured knowledge layer that makes LLM answers accurate and traceable.
1,200 COBOL programs cannot fit in any context window — and even if they could, you would repeat the cost every query. Genesis MKE pre-processes once. Any query answers in seconds.
An LLM guessing at code behaviour is worse than no answer in a regulatory context. Every Genesis MKE answer traces back to a verified AST fact — never a guess, never hallucinated.
Point at your source. Genesis MKE does the rest.
COBOL, JCL, BMS, CSD, copybooks
AST extraction — every fact, every relationship
Neo4j knowledge graph — all connections live
AI adds business language — grounded in code
Semantic index — plain English queries answered
Incremental processing — only changed programs are re-analysed on each run. Architected for 1,200+ program codebases. No mainframe expertise required to operate Genesis MKE.
Tested on a real COBOL corpus (CardDemo, 44 programs). OpenAI text-embedding-3-large. All scores from direct API measurements.
On specific requirement-level queries: 0.286 → 0.687 similarity. Correct paragraph found.
Auto-generated requirements docs and dependency maps replace months of manual analysis and tribal knowledge interviews.
System automatically finds exact peer programs without any manual review or configuration.
| Query | Without Genesis MKE | With Genesis MKE |
|---|---|---|
| "Which program handles credit card updates?" | Wrong program returned (0.26 similarity) | COCRDSLC — correct (0.47 similarity) |
| "What validates the expiry month?" | No result found | Exact paragraph found (0.687 similarity) |
| "Find the interest calculation logic" | No result found | CBACT04C — correct (0.40 similarity) |
| "What screens does the main menu dispatch to?" | No result found | COMEN01C — correct (0.53 similarity) |
Genesis MKE delivers different value to every stakeholder — from CIO to developer.
We don't know what we don't know. Every estimate is a guess. Compliance audits require manual documentation efforts that take months.
Risk: unknown unknownsFull program inventory on first run. Risk is visible, measurable, and manageable. Compliance documentation is auto-generated and always current.
Risk: quantified and trackedDrawing dependency maps from tribal knowledge and best guesses. Manual documentation efforts take months. Nobody fully trusts what's produced.
Architecture mapping: monthsAuto-generated dependency maps verified against actual source. CICS flow chains, JCL trees, data lineage — accurate, current, and trusted.
Architecture mapping: weeksFinding the right paragraph takes days. Impact of changes is unknown until something breaks in production. Every change is a risk.
Code comprehension: daysSemantic search surfaces the exact paragraph. Impact analysis before every change. Zero surprise breakage from hidden dependencies.
Code comprehension: minutesWriting requirements from scratch with no idea how the current system actually behaves. Traceability is manual, partial, and perpetually out of date.
Coverage: partial, manualAuto-generated requirements documents per program. Every business rule linked to the exact code line. Regulatory traceability complete and auditable.
Coverage: 100%, auto-generatedGenesis MKE is designed for the security, compliance, and operational requirements of enterprise mainframe shops.
Runs entirely on-premises or in your private cloud. No COBOL source, no business logic is sent to any external service.
All AI-generated descriptions trace back to a verified AST fact. No claim is made without source-code evidence. No hallucination.
Auto-generated requirements include source references, version history, and complete business rule traceability for compliance teams.
Team-level and project-level permissions. Developers see their subsystems. Architects see the complete graph. Multi-tenant isolation.
Architected for 1,200+ COBOL programs. Incremental analysis — only changed programs are reprocessed. First run complete, reruns fast.
Knowledge graph queryable via REST API. Connects to Jira, Confluence, and CI/CD pipelines. Exports to Markdown, Word, and PDF.
Not a rip-and-replace. Not a multi-year program. A 2-week knowledge discovery sprint on your existing mainframe — and you see the value before any contract decision.