Transoft
provides migration path for HP e3000 TRANSACT 4GL
applications
ATLANTA, January 12, 2004 - Transoft, a leader
in enabling companies to evolve new solutions from existing
applications, announced today 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 announcement, Transoft is able to migrate
these TRANSACT applications to any open systems platform
without any change 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 utilise Transoft's established
libraries of MPE supporting functionality, including
VPLUS and IMAGE, enabling appropriate replications of
TRANSACT runtime functionality.
In order to achieve an effective translation, it is
necessary to ensure that the code generator is able to
replicate the TRANSACT runtime environment which is generated
in terms of the COBOL Identification, Environment and
Data Divisions. Finally, the business logic contained
in the TRANSACT source code is generated as Procedure
Division statements followed by supporting COBOL code
in the form of performed 'sections'.
"This new TRANSACT to COBOL facility we have added
to the market leading Transoft Legacy Liberator migration
toolset offers HP e3000 TRANSACT users, for the first
time, an automated means of migrating these applications
to open systems, at a fraction of the cost of re-development
and without the inherent risk", commented Geoff
Baker, VP Product Strategy, Transoft.
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