Tandem COBOL Migration
Famous for their fault tolerant system, Tandem / Tandem Non-Stop dialect of COBOL is fairly close to ANSI COBOL 74/85 Standards.
The main differences is the extensions to COBOL language, Screens definitions Database and API.
SoftwareMining has expereince with migration of several small Tandem application.
SoftwareMining has expereince with migration of several small Tandem application, and can migrate this dialect of COBOL to either Java or C#.
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Tandem Screens Definition
Tandem Screens definitions are typically defined in external files. Tandem COBOL screens tend to be used within Conversational programs, designed for a "client-server" type deployment. SoftwareMining converts such Conversational applications to a Application-Server architecture.
The screen definitions are tranlated to XML/XSLT architecture which works with an Web-Server, to produce HTML screens at run-time. Although in HTML, The translated screens would still have a "green-screen" look and feel. As a part of an application modernization project, many sites redesign the screens to benefit from a new look and feel.
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Tandem COBOL Migration, Modernization and Rehosting Project Phases
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The translation of to Java or C# applications involve
- Asset Management: Identify all the artifacts required for translation .
- (Optional) Business Rule Extraction.
- Translate to target language
- Database and Data Migratation
- Migrate JCL / WFL / CL
- Creation and Population of Test Database
- System acceptance testing
- System acceptance testing
- User Acceptance Testing
- (Client): Interation 2 Improvements: Screen Redesign, SOA Integration, Cloud Deployments, Coding Improvements and cleanup
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Tandem Migration, Modernization and Re-hosting References
Tandem
SoftwareMining on Wikipedia
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