Overview
Organisations with investments in applications developed using CA
Ideal/Datacom are being forced to consider the future of these applications and
whether they should be replaced or rewritten in order to address the inherent
risk associated with continuing to run business critical systems on technology
that is fast approaching extinction.
Challenges include rising support costs and
a shrinking skills base. Organisations with valuable applications developed
using CA Ideal/Datacom, therefore face an increasing risk to their business and
should consider alternatives like migrating to another platform.
MigrationWare
provides such a solution that allows for the preservation of the investments
made in building these critical business systems, whilst removing the inherent
risk associated with the use of CA Ideal/Datacom. The MigrationWare solution is
founded on the principles of automation technology that remove much of the risk
and costs associated with technology migration projects.
The CA Ideal conversion
tools provide for a highly automated approach to CA Ideal/Datacom migrations
that automatically deliver functionally equivalent COBOL code executing against
a leading relational database that is well structured and highly maintainable.
Because of the high degree of automation, the speed and accuracy of the
conversion is exceptionally high, ensuring cost efficient and risk free
migration projects.
Once converted the code inherits all the benefits of
portability and extendibility provided by COBOL, as well as the benefits
provided by the well represented body of third party vendors that supply
application understanding, productivity and deployment products targeting COBOL
applications.
The converted code is delivered entirely in source code with no
run-time dependencies helping to ensure no additional costs are incurrent and
also ensuring the complete freedom of the system owners to undertake technical
developments in any chosen direction independent of third party support.
Benefits
The replacement of CA Ideal with COBOL ensures that the application
continues to add value, and can continue to play a critical role in the
functioning of business without the organisation needing to make a further
investment to replace the mission critical application.
The replacement of
Datacom with an open relational DBMS ensures that availability of the data, and
removes the inherent risk associated with the continued dependence on a rapidly
disappearing technology. The choice of COBOL as the replacement technology means
that the converted code benefits from COBOL’s renowned high performance,
maintainability and portability across all contemporary platforms.
The choice of
COBOL also ensures the continued availability of skills and support from a wide
ranging body of third party vendors. The converted code can optionally be
delivered in a restructured form that executes pseudo-conversationally adding to
the potential choices for deployment of the converted systems allowing them to
front web interfaces and web services.
The MigrationWare solution is delivered
in COBOL source code format with no run-time dependencies. Once converted, there
are no additional licences fees to be incurrent and as such there are
significant cost benefits to be derived.
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Key features
• Close to 100% automatic
translation.
• Where DATACOM is used with CA Ideal, this can also be
automatically converted to an RDBMS of choice
• For online application CA Ideal
is converted to COBOL/CICS
• All CA Ideal reports are converted to standard
COBOL syntax that provides functional equivalent results.
• Automatically
addresses the conversion of intrinsic functions, replacing these with platform
independent supported alternatives.
• Supports deployment onto both EBCDIC and ASCII environments • No black boxes
or run-time dependencies
• No license or maintenance fees
Conversion execution
MigrationWare can either perform the conversion on behalf of the organisation or
provide the solution to the client or a partner to convert the code.
When
MigrationWare performs the conversion, the CA Ideal/Datacom code is delivered to
MigrationWare. It is then converted to a clean compiling COBOL/SQL program.
The
converted program(s) are then returned to the customer for subsequent testing
and implementation. MigrationWare remains active in a support role throughout
the testing phase should any issues surface, which require MigrationWare’s
involvement.
Pricing
Each project is unique with differing requirements volumes,
schedules and deadlines. It is therefore usually impossible to supply a fixed
pricing structure.
A final quote is only provided after initial interaction with
the client and when MigrationWare has fully understood the scope of the project
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