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Transoft provides migration
path for HP e3000 TRANSACT 4GL applications
Transoft recently announced that it has expanded its Transoft
Legacy Liberator migration toolset and service offering to
include the capability to migrate HP e3000 TRANSACT-based
applications to open systems.
Until now, following Hewlett-Packard's announcement that
it was discontinuing the HP e3000 platform, HP e3000 users
with TRANSACT applications have had to either discard these
systems when they move to a new open systems platform, or
have them re-developed from the ground up in a different language.
With this development, Transoft is able to migrate these
TRANSACT applications to any open systems platform without
any loss of functionality. This is achieved by the new 'TRANSACT
to COBOL' capability of Transoft Legacy Liberator that generates
COBOL code, acceptable to open systems COBOL, from these applications.
These generated COBOL programs utilize Transoft's established
libraries supporting MPE functionality, including VPLUS and
IMAGE, enabling appropriate replications of TRANSACT runtime
functionality. Once migrated, the applications can be easily
modernized with GUI interfaces and Web connectivity using
Transoft Adapters.
For more information, go to: www.transoft.com/news/transact.htm
Transoft
"liberates" Rockland County's Bull technology
to an open systems environment
Transoft has won a $1million contract with Rockland County,
NY, to migrate the Bull GCOS applications and data of
its health department, mental healthcare and long-term
care operations to the latest IT standards. The Transoft
Legacy Liberator migration suite will convert the county's
programs and information to an IBM e-Server running the
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For more information, go to: www.transoft.com/news/RocklandCounty.htm
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Transoft
moves the technology at Lakeshore Learning Materials
from the '80s to the 21st Century
Transoft has been chosen by Lakeshore Learning Materials
to migrate and update the data and applications of the
company's order processing system to an open systems
architecture. Based in the Los Angeles area, Lakeshore
Learning produces and sells school supplies and educational
toys. After more than 20 years of using an order processing
system on a Data General (DG) MV system, and given the
dwindling support available for it, Lakeshore Learning
appointed Transoft to update the system to Transoft
U/BL on a Hewlett-Packard server under the open systems
HP/UX environment.
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For more information, go to: www.transoft.com/news/LakeShoreLearning.htm
CUSTOMER & PARTNER NEWS
Another major project consolidates Transoft's worldwide HP
e3000 migration leadership…
HP e3000 migration
delivered for leading European transport company
In conjunction with its partner CAP Gemini Ernst & Young,
Transoft has delivered, ready for acceptance testing, a UK
HP e3000 migration solution for one of Europe's leading transport
companies. The VPLUS, COBOL, IMAGE application was transformed
to ACUCOBOL running SQL Server under Windows 2003, with a
mix of character and ASP .NET GUI screens. The user will benefit
from faster processing, easier reporting, easier expansion
of functionality and security of supply.
One particularly challenging aspect of the project was the
simulation of the original MPE operating system IPC (Inter
Process Communication) mechanism. This was key to retaining
the facility to automatically transfer staff details between
depots to match actual staff transfers.
Skyguide
(Swiss Air Traffic Control) now testing migrated applications
Transoft has completed and delivered the migration work
for Skyguide. Written in a complex mix of ADA, Fortran
77, C and Assembler, we have taken their mission-critical
applications from a DG MV to a modern Windows environment.
Intensive testing will now take place before going live. |
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Transoft
Adapters give Stapletons real-time online ordering
"Being committed to customer focused solutions, we
recognised that real-time online ordering was a strategic
alternative to our call centre. Transoft Adapters have
allowed us to integrate our online ordering system with
our existing applications. This has been instrumental
in helping to secure new contract wins with Ford, BMW
and many others, and as a result our business has grown
by 10%." |
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Today online ordering accounts for nearly 20% of Stapleton's
trade business - taking nearly £2 million worth of orders
each month.
To read the full story, go to: www.transoft.com/customers/stapletons.htm
Symology
adds wireless application with Transoft Adapters
Symology Limited, the developer of integrated solutions
for the management of infrastructure assets, including
highways, land and property, structures, public lighting,
and distribution networks, has used Transoft Adapters
to develop a new wireless Mobile Device Module for its
Insight application to facilitate field data collection. |
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Field data collection is becoming increasingly important.
With the government emphasis on performance, an efficient
and flexible mobile device solution is required. The new Mobile
Device module not only meets these needs, but also provides
additional business functionality. By using the Microsoft
.NET framework and connecting to the existing ACUCOBOL application
via Transoft Adapters, Symology can potentially port this
module to any other .NET compatible device and has protected
its software investment.
Transoft
completes project to provide SEDOL code enhancements to
Northern Bank of Belfast
In January 2003 all institutions using the London Stock
Exchange service were notified that, from 5th January
2004, all securities would need to be identified by a
7 character alphanumeric SEDOL code. |
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Northern Bank Plc was running TABS (a Trust and Investments
Management system written using Transoft U/BL and BB-ISAM
data files) and in TABS securities were identified by a 7
digit numeric SEDOL code. Transoft made the appropriate major
changes to many of the TABS programs for Northern Bank, and
undertook the necessary data file conversion. The modifications
were delivered early, and implementation was problem-free.
Further enhancements were delivered in time for March month-end
reporting, and these have reduced the time taken to produce
specific management reports from a day to less than an hour.
SP Richards
reports industrial strength performance with Transoft
Adapters
Jim Moseley, VP SP Richards, reports the excellent performance
they are achieving with Transoft Adapters on their Web
server. This is processing in excess of 130,000 hits per
day and their main HP/UX server is processing over 2 million
transactions per day with less than half of their distribution
centers online. |
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SP Richards expects the Transoft Adapters to process in excess
of 4 million transactions per day once all of their 39 distribution
centers are online.
PRODUCT NEWS
Transoft U/SQL Gateway
now supports migrated IBM mainframe VSAM files on SUN Solaris
Transoft U/SQL on Solaris has been linked with Sun's VSAM
library to allow relational access to migrated VSAM data via
the Micro Focus EXTFH file handler. Set-up is the same as
for a standard Micro Focus installation, and the Transoft
U/SQL Manager is used to set-up the UDD as normal.
Transoft e-Toolbox extended
to include XML broker and transformation facilities
Transoft e-Toolbox is a powerful, easy to use Web application
framework. Written in Java and based on an MVC (Model View
Controller) architecture, it provides the Web application
developer with a number of services that make it much easier
to construct, deploy and maintain Web applications.
These services include the rapid integration and deployment
of JavaBeans, application process flow management and extensible
access to legacy systems when combined with the power of the
Transoft Adapters.
Transoft e-Toolbox has now been extended to include XML broking
and transformation. Important features are:
- Support for multiple feeds and destinations enabling,
for example, the automatic consolidation of orders from
multiple customers
- Comprehensive pre and post transformation processing
- Support of XSL-T JavaScript processing.
Transoft U/BL now available
on the popular IBM AS/400 / iSeries
Transoft U/BL, Transoft's popular, portable Business BASIC
application language, is now available for application development
and deployment on the IBM AS/4000 / iSeries under the *OS/400
Portable Application Solutions Environment (PASE). This new
release extends even further the very wide range of platform
support for U/BL and provides access to a new market for U/BL
applications software vendors.
*OS/400 PASE or Portable Application Solutions
Environment.
IBM PASE facilitates the porting of UNIX based AIX applications
to the iSeries platform. For more information on PASE please
see:
www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/ecatalog/us/hardware/iseries/11191.html
Latest information on minimum
supported Operating System revisions
For full details go to: www.transoft.com/support/UnSupportedOS_April2004.htm
Customer Services for the Americas can be contacted on: ussupport@transoft.com
Customer Services for the Rest of the World can be contacted
on: uksupport@transoft.com
FlexGen Webinars for 2004
The FlexGen Webinar series held in 2003 was very well received
by our customers. For this year, we are again turning to you,
our customers, asking which topics you would like to have
covered this year. We are also planning a Webinar User Forum,
where our customers will be invited to share their use of
the FlexGen system. Please send your comments on the FlexGen
Webinars to Wayne Spalding at Wspalding@transoft.com.
NEWS EXTRA
Microsoft Seminar Program
Microsoft and Transoft presented two seminars in the Northeast
United States entitled "Migration Best Practices - The
Secret of Success". Attendees were provided with an overview
of an application migration project through identification
of pre-requisites, planning, execution, and primary implementation
tasks and procedures. The seminars were held on May 10th in
New Jersey and May 12th in New York City.
Transoft presents
and exhibits at European Business Rules Conference in Amsterdam
in June
Transoft's Principal Architect, John Pocock, has presented
on "Agility in competition and compliance" at the
European Business Rules Conference held at the Hotel Okura
from 16-18 June. This is the third annual conference held
in response to increasing European interest in the Business
Rules approach. Transoft was also exhibiting.
More information can be found at: www.eurobizrules.org.
Transoft to exhibit at HP
World 2004
Transoft will be an exhibitor at HP World 2004 in Chicago,
August 16-20. HP World is the only event to deliver focused
technical content, real-world solutions and usable skills
that have made HP World the largest HP users conference in
the Americas. The conference and expo is produced by the leading
independent associations of HP professionals and endorsed
by HP. This is a great opportunity to see first-hand the latest
products, applications and solutions on HP World's action
packed expo floor. Be sure to visit Transoft's booth in the
HP World Partners Program Pavilion, Booth #641.
For more information, go to www.hpworld.com.
Transoft Inc
announces a Breakfast Seminar to discuss the challenges and
options facing the HP e3000 user community
The meeting will be held September 14th, 2004 at the Cleveland
Hilton in Cleveland, Ohio. It begins at 8am with breakfast
and will discuss the challenges facing all HP e3000 users,
their options and the pros and cons of each option. There
is no charge for the meeting.
For more information, email Wayne Spalding at wspalding@transoft.com.
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