About The Source Recovery Company
The Source Recovery Company (SRC) is recognized as the ONLY company in the world who recovers COBOL or Assembler source code from IBM MVS
or VSE executable programs. Our foundation is a patented
technology, ReSource™.
In 1985, Fred Brandes, a systems programmer and software
developer, began his research to solve the mystery of "uncompiling"
a mainframe executable module. Drawing on his cryptography
interest, along with his programming experience, he began to
develop a system of recognizing patterns of machine
instructions to unlock the mystery of recovering source
code.
As a result of several years of research and development, a
multi-step process to fully recover source code was
developed. A repository of code patterns and an automated
system to delink, disassemble and decompile load modules
known as ReSource™ became a reality. The final step, a
methodology for validation, was established so that the
accuracy of the recovery could be guaranteed. In 1992, The
Source Recovery Company, Inc. was founded as the first and
only company with the technology to automate the complete
recovery of missing COBOL or Assembler source code in the
IBM MVS or VSE environments.
Because of the uniqueness of its technology, The Source
Recovery Company gained the attention of many Fortune 1000
companies as well as federal, state and local government
agencies. Recognizing the demand that would be created by
pending Year2000 programming concerns, SRC acquired
investment financing in September 1996 to become The Source
Recovery Company, LLC. Post Y2K in October, 2000, the LLC
was dissolved. The ReSource technology, patents, and
copyrights were returned to the original founders.
Effective October 2000, with the dissolution of the LLC, The
Source Recovery Company of Georgia, Inc. continues to offer
the same guaranteed recovery services it developed over 15
years ago.
Supported Compilers
The following is a list of compilers from which SRC can
recover source code. If your executable program was compiled
using any of the following, we can help.
IBM ANS COBOL V4
OS/VS COBOL
VS COBOL II
COBOL/370
COBOL for MVS
COBOL for OS/390
DOS/VS COBOL
COBOL for VSE
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