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Transoft announces ‘do-it-yourself’ migration tool set for HP e3000 users
Transoft has announced that its Legacy Liberator tool set is available as a complete easy-to-use Windows-based migration solution for HP e3000 users. The Transoft Legacy Liberator will now allow HP e3000 users to undertake their own application migrations to new UNIX, Linux and Windows environments at their own pace and with lower migration costs.
For more information, go to: www.transoft.com/news/HP3000_Migration_Tools.htm
Transoft wins VMS Pathfinder study for YELL.COM
YELL.COM, the online version of Yellow Pages, has engaged Transoft to produce a Pathfinder Report on how they can de-risk a migration of their existing DEC VMS systems to an open systems platform.
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Transoft will develop a technical roadmap for all aspects of the migration, together with a Fixed Price bid for undertaking the migration itself.
Transoft wins Pathfinder study for Swiss Banking Software company
Transoft has delivered a Pathfinder study on how to convert a COBOL generated application using a 4GL called ARC21 to a Service Oriented Architecture using the Transoft Component Adapters product set. This is an exciting project as it re-uses all the business logic in the applications whilst allowing deployment using JSP and ASP.NET components.
CUSTOMER & PARTNER NEWS
Transoft offers HP e3000 Application Migration Solution through Ecometry Partner Program
Transoft has joined the Ecometry Alliance Network (EAN) and now offers clients the ability to migrate applications developed alongside Ecometry Commerce Suite (TM) running on the HP e3000 platform to Windows or UNIX. |
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Transoft was invited to join EAN because of its leading position in providing application migration solutions for HP e3000 users, and the benefits clients will receive as a result of the alliance.
To read the full story: www.transoft.com/news/EcometryAllianceNetwork.htm
Transoft and PBSI help students at Gateway Community & Technical College
Cincinnati-based Positive Business Solutions, Inc. (PBSI) manufactures leading-edge medical office software, which is widely used in the healthcare industry. PBSI has formed a partnership with Gateway Community and Technical College, which offers a medical information technology program, to create the PBSI Learning Center on the college campus in Edgewood, KY. Under the terms of a three-year contract, PBSI will supply Gateway with computer software and support that will be used to teach students how to use the software to get them jobs on the business side of medical offices, which is a growing field. The donation from PBSI of the software, hardware, and support is estimated at more than $100,000 over three years. Transoft provided the underlying U/BL licenses to PBSI free of charge, so this donation could become a reality.
Swiss Air Traffic Control, Skyguide, goes live – assisted by Transoft tools & services
“Transoft’s migration has enabled us to transfer our existing applications to a Microsoft Windows platform – saving huge redevelopment costs, preserving the knowledge and skills of our IT staff, and guaranteeing the essential high availability and security of the systems.” Bertrand Petit, Project Leader, Skyguide
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For more information, go to: www.transoft.com/customers/skyguide2.htm
UK tire company, Stapletons, enhances their e-business site with Transoft Component Adapters
Stapletons has enhanced the e-business front-end to its legacy applications by deploying the Transoft Screen Adapter. This has enabled them to use the same business logic from the in-house PRO-IV Tyreman application to satisfy Web availability and pricing requests as well as to order products. |
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Stephen Parker (Stapletons I.T. Director) commented - "Using the Transoft Screen Component Adapter has enabled us to speed-up our ProfitLink online ordering website, with the search capability now taking less than 3 seconds from an initial 8-10 seconds. Using the same business logic also means that our development life cycles are considerably reduced and the internal and external sales resources utilise a single set of rules."
PRODUCT NEWS
Transoft launches Legacy Liberator to help companies migrate from ICL VME platforms with minimal pain and cost
Transoft, a leader in helping companies to evolve to new IT solutions from their legacy applications, has launched a version of its Transoft Legacy Liberator application migration toolset for the ICL VME mainframe. Transoft Legacy Liberator for ICL will enable organizations to migrate all flavours of their ICL VME applications (Application Master, COBOL, SCL and IDMSX) to UNIX, Linux or Windows.
For more information: www.transoft.com/news/ICL_VME_LegacyLiberator.htm Transoft extends your investment in our software by adding support for 64-bit platforms in U/SQL and TCA
Transoft has added support for the 64-bit platforms in U/SQL and TCA in order to satisfy user demand.
However, when you buy a 64-bit computer it may be to your advantage to run 32-bit software on it rather than getting the software compiled in 64-bit mode. Recompiling in 64-bit mode makes the binary capable of accessing large amounts of memory, but also makes the binary bigger and potentially slower. Unless the application can make use of more than 2Gb of memory, there is a disadvantage in using 64-bit binaries.
The manufacturers are supporting, and even encouraging 32-bit binaries on 64-bit hardware. For example, Oracle releases include 32-bit libraries on all 64-bit platforms.
For more information please contact Transoft Support.
Transoft releases U/SQL 4.10
- Transoft Enterprise Join Engine (EJE) enhanced to include support of Microsoft Access
- Support for ACUCOBOL Vision 5 file handler
Note:
(i) Windows U/SQL ACU Server 4.10 can only be used by customers running ACU 6.1 or 6.2
(ii) Single Tier Acu U/SQL 4.10 can only be used by customers running ACU 6.2.
- Support for Micro Focus Server Express 2.2.
Transoft releases TCA and TDS 3.10
- Transoft Screen Adapter support for high-ASCII characters in VT100 emulation
- Transoft Screen Adapter enhancement to support keyboard emulation mapping
- Transoft Data Adapter enhanced to support Data Direct ODBC.
Transoft U/Qube replaces Quest’s QMaster Queue and Print Manager with considerable savings
Transoft has developed U/Qube as a Queue and Print Manager for customers requiring the ability to control enterprise-wide distributed multi-server operations flexibly and cost-effectively.
Several years ago, Transoft migrated a large packaging manufacturer’s legacy applications in some 40 countries from proprietary Data General (DG) MV computers to Microsoft Windows NT and Micro Focus COBOL, with Transoft’s U/FOS database a clone of the DG database INFOS.
With such a complex operation, it is essential that this organization has considerable flexibility in the control of batch and print queues across the many servers. As part of the original migration, Quest’s QMaster was installed as the queue and print manager, but with the constant need to change configuration of servers QMaster was inflexible in meeting the customer’s needs.
Transoft continues to provide long-term software infrastructure support, and with the roll out of multiple Windows Server 2003 platforms, the manufacturer chose to implement Transoft’s U/Qube replacing QMaster as the queue and print manager as it offered increased flexibility and considerable cost savings.
NEWS EXTRA
Transoft presents at Micro Focus Developer Forum in Atlanta and Amsterdam
The 2005 Micro Focus Developer Forums were an intensive three days of presentations, workshops and informal opportunities to meet with experts in the fields of:
- Platform Migrations
- Mainframe Development
- Distributed Computing
- Application Understanding & Architecture
As many of you may already be aware, Transoft has been a Micro Focus partner for many years now and we were pleased to be invited to present our Application Migration solutions at this event. Transoft works closely with Micro Focus offering migration and modernization solutions for many proprietary COBOL platforms using a combination of Micro Focus and Transoft technologies. Transoft has recently added the IBM mainframe to the list of platforms it migrates using the Micro Focus ‘Lift & Shift’ technology together with the Transoft Legacy Liberator toolset.
Transoft exhibits and presents at CISOA in Lake Tahoe, April 17-20
The Chief Information Systems Officers Association (CISOA) for the California Community Colleges held their annual conference April 17-20 in Lake Tahoe. John Cade, Information Technology Consultant for Transoft, who also has a background in Community Colleges and K12 finance and student accounting systems, gave a presentation targeted to the community colleges HP e3000 migration environment. Transoft also exhibited in the vendor area.
Transoft at COBOL Future 2005, Utrecht, Netherlands, April 28
This was the second annual conference on the future of one of the oldest programming languages. Given the perennial and, in our opinion, utterly misguided predictions of COBOL’s demise it was heartening to be part of such a well attended event.
The major theme of the conference was "decreasing the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of legacy-systems". One of the ways to achieve this is migrating core business applications on to modern, lower cost, platforms such Windows, UNIX and Linux.
Another major consideration is leveraging current assets by integrating COBOL functionality with Java, .NET and application servers such as WebLogic, WebShere or BizTalk.
Transoft has products and services to achieve all of this and more, with an enviable track record of success. So consequently it was a hectic day conversing with both long standing, and potential new partners, and our application migration and modernization presentation attracted more than 70 attendees.
Transoft exhibiting at the 2005 Ecometry Masters World Conference & Expo in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, June 12-15
Transoft, a new Ecometry partner, will be exhibiting at the Ecometry World Conference. Whether it be surround code, or application expertise, Transoft will be discussing at the booth how we work with Ecometry to migrate applications to open systems.
Transoft participate in the UK Government Computing Exhibition & Conference, Earls Court, London, June 21-22
In its 18 th year, GC2005expo is dedicated to public sector service transformation and the impact of technology. With over 200 exhibitors, and running alongside Procurement Solutions (the official government purchasing event), the combined exhibitions are the largest civil public sector procurement gathering in the UK.
Transoft will be exhibiting, and demonstrating its Transoft Pathfinder application understanding tools.
For more information please visit: www.gcexpo.com.
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