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Migrating HP 3000 Applications

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A Partial Migration Solution May be Worse Than None At All

We spoke to an MPE/iX user who contracted with a "migration vendor" who only "migrated" their COBOL. It was left to the customer to deal with their VPLUS screens, JCL, utilities, batch job processing, spoolers, etc. Interestingly enough, migrating COBOL is probably the easiest part of the migration project. All of the rest of the MPE related products are more complex if one is going to rewrite them to suit another, non-MPE environment It is not difficult to imagine a situation like this ending badly.
Let's analyze the "migrated" claim. If your COBOL syntax is converted so that you get clean compiles is it "migrated"? This is not a trick question. The answer is that it is not migrated until you can run the program and all of the things related to it (screens, JCL or scripts, other related programs, etc.) and prove that it works. In the situation described above, the "migration vendor" has cleverly shifted the responsibility for success of the project to the hiring company. After converting the COBOL all the end user company has is a bridge to nowhere. They have created an illusion of accomplishment and likely have been paid in full in the process. So the customer is stuck with the responsibility to finish the project. If the project fails, it is now the customer's fault.
The only test that is useful after a real migration is that by running the program you can prove that it functions substantially the same and produces functionally the same acceptable results as it does in the MPE/iX environment.

Overview

Having once experienced platform obsolesce, HP 3000 MPE/iX users seek to create an IT environment that is not inherently bound to specific operating systems, database products or hardware platforms. Also desirable are platforms that offer reduced maintenance costs, support for new business requirements, mitigated risk, and can consolidate IT systems or enable them to be more agile in supporting the business going forward. The Transformix Software HP 3000 solution suite offers the most cost-effective, efficient and complete solution for migrating and modernizing MPE/iX applications to enable customers to achieve those strategic goals.

The Transformix Sungard Bi-tech Transport environment is a fully-functional, native, runtime and development environment for execution of HP 3000 MPE/iX applications. Transport manages application resources such as programs, files, queues, transactions, screens, and printers providing a robust execution environment for business applications.
Transport also provides a complete environment for execution and management of batch workloads on open system servers. Concepts such as job management and priorities are supported.

The product features a complete suite of language translators, utilities, database support and operating system services that allows application programs developed for MPE/IX to be migrated at the source code level, recompiled, and executed under Open Systems. Transformix Transport supports migration of MPE/iX third generation and 4GL programming languages code to the Windows, UNIX or Linux platforms. Transformix Transport supports the Oracle, IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server and PostrgreSQL databases. Programming languages migrated include COBOL, PASCAL, SPL, BASIC, FORTRAN and C. Forth generation languages migrated include Speedware, Transact and BRW. JCL embedded languages include DataNOW, Suprtool and MPE/X.

Transformix HP 3000 MPE/iX - Legacy Migration

Migrate MPE/iX Applications quickly and cost effectively to Windows, UNIX or Linux, Modernize and Integrate using Transformix MPE/IX software and services from Transformix Software. Products from Transformix Software are the leading legacy migration and modernization tools for the IBM Midrange and MPE/iX markets. Sungard Bi-tech Transport has been in continuous use since 1988 in hundreds of companies and organizations worldwide.

MPE/iX applications run core business enterprises worldwide and represent tremendous intellectual capital built over time. While these assets and the platform they run on have proven responsive to traditional international business needs, the web, newer database products and the need for usable Service Oriented Architecture technology have created a new set of expectations for access and use of these applications.

By deploying Transformix Transport, COBOL, VPLUS, JCL and MPE/iX based applications can be offered on Windows, UNIX or Linux that combine the maturity of robust, tried and tested applications with the economy and power of 21st century technologies.

The Transformix Toolset

Transformix Tools along with Sungard Bi-tech Transport is a suite of language translators, utilities and operating system services that allow applications programs (developed under a number of programming languages such as COBOL for the MPE/iX environment) to be migrated at the source code level, recompiled and executed on the target platform. The combined suite of programs, utilities and operating environment provide a very complete Legacy Migration and Modernization solution.

A better alternative than rewriting

The Transformix Toolset is the solution of choice for HP MPE/iX system developers who want to protect their investment in HP MPE/iX applications and resources. The benefits are immediate-financially, operationally and strategically. Migrating with the Transformix Toolset is an attractive alternative to the cost of major time delays associated with rewriting legacy applications.

The Transformix Toolset is the easiest to use, fastest to deploy and most cost effective method of migrating and modernizing MPE/iX applications to UNIX, Linux or Windows. Transformix Toolset provides the ability to reduce the number of platforms to be supported while protecting the investment in the legacy code as well as the current support and development staff.

Transformix Toolset generates truly native multi-platform solutions and will enable software developers to migrate their MPE/iX oriented COBOL, PASCAL, BASIC, PASCAL, C, etc. applications in far less time than redeveloping. In addition, it is possible to continue development on the MPE/iX and/or migrated platform. Existing support infrastructure and documentation can be used for both platforms.

The migration risk is far less because the existing resource remains unaltered, current skills can maintain and support the application, the application code runs in a replicated environment-this change will cause a minimum level of disruption in the day-to-day operation of the business.

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