GT Software Releases NEObatch v3.2, NEOkicks v3.2, and NEOdata v2.1

GT Software’s NEO Suite of products provides support for the latest versions of Microsoft products and environments

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today GT Software, a leading provider of enterprise modernization solutions, announced the general availability of its NEO Suite family of products. The release features updates that improve user experience and includes splash screens, user interfaces and documentation enhancements.

“The enhancements made to our NEO Suite of products will allow our customers to leverage the latest technologies that Microsoft has available. These new releases will continue to provide an excellent way to modernize and enhance business-critical applications”

With the release of NEObatch v3.2, NEOkicks v3.2, and NEOdata v2.1, the NEO suite of products is now compatible with Microsoft Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, SQL Server 2012, and the .NET 4.0 and 4.5 frameworks. These new versions are also compatible with the recently released Fujitsu NetCOBOL for .NET v5.0 compiler and runtime, which allows customers to also take advantage of Microsoft Visual Studio 2012.

New or improved functionality beyond the Windows OS and .NET framework changes include:

• NEObatch v3.2.0 - Debug restarted jobs directly from SYSOUT Viewer, Purge jobs based on job ID, and overwrite existing PDS members with new files on import

• NEOdata v2.1.0 - Custom EBCDIC to ASCII conversion tables, support for custom mapping of EBCDIC to ASCII values, preservation of special values such as spaces, low values and high values, and support for relative paths in NEOdata Tool utility

• NEOkicks v3.2.0 - Create and maintain NEOkicks projects in Visual Studio 2012 using Fujitsu NetCOBOL for .NET v5.0,WRITE OPERATOR command support and CANCEL command support

“The enhancements made to our NEO Suite of products will allow our customers to leverage the latest technologies that Microsoft has available. These new releases will continue to provide an excellent way to modernize and enhance business-critical applications,” said Raul Menendez, Director of Product Management at GT Software.

For over three decades, GT Software has helped organizations optimize their technology investments by providing enterprise modernization solutions. A core division of GT Software focuses on enhancing and evolving legacy applications, future-proofing them by making them more flexible and open to newer platforms.

About GT Software

Celebrating 30 years of technology excellence, GT Software delivers a broad scope of integration, modernization, and migration solutions across a variety of platforms. Enterprises across the globe with legacy mainframe assets leverage GT Software solutions to optimize these technology investments while modernizing for use in mobile, cloud and web applications. For more information, visit www.gtsoftware.com.