What should be done with applications developed with 20th century Case tools and languages?

Often, these applications work but they are virtually unmaintainable through shortage of the appropriate skills and suffer form being difficult to integrate with current, standard technologies, especially where there is no longer any support provided by software provider.

SOFTMAINT proposes a migration solution for these applications into an active environment with a future, without undermining their logical and technical architecture.

Standard SOFTMAINT approach

All transformations carried out on programs, JCL and databases, resulting identical functionality is achieved through a project automating:

• The component analysis
• The breakdown into batches
• The use of rules to transform components: changing procedural language to the same level or new code generation
• Non-regression testing

 

Conversion to COBOL

SOFTMAINT specializes in mainframe migration projects targeting COBOL and applies its tried and tested solutions for:

• Migrating Natural, PL/1, RPG, Pacbase, etc. applications to a COBOL environment, in an industrialized way
• Reproducing, in the target COBOL development environment, the productivity aids and performance levels found in the source environment
• Producing COBOL respecting the client’s development standards
• Automating the non-regression testing

 

To manage such projects, SOFTMAINT relies on an approach, a proven toolset and a specialized team.