Like so many other organizations today, the FAA wishes to reduce application hosting costs. As one of their initiatives, the FAA hired Trinity Millennium Group to modernize their Natural / Adabas applications. This effort involved millions of lines of source code, conversion to a Windows .Net platform, and migration of Adabas indexed data files to a relational database.
A critical feature of the Automation-Enabled Modernization™ (AEM™) is the combined use of automation with software engineering best practices. Manual modernization efforts are slow, expensive and error-prone, while fully automated conversion results in simplistic, poorly architected applications that are difficult and expensive to maintain. Trinity provides the best of both worlds – our modernization consultants utilize our extensive library of automated conversion tools, and apply the human touch for critical design and re-factoring tasks. The following table shows how this approach provided a fast, cost-effective migration to a high-quality result for the FAA.
| FROM | Conversion | TO |
|---|---|---|
| Natural procedural code & global data structures |
90% Automation 10% Manual code polish |
VB.Net code & SQL Server stored procedures |
| Natural screen maps | 100% Automation | ASP.Net screen definitions |
| Adabas file definitions | Automated DDL generation with predefined design parameters, followed by manual DDL polishing | SQL Server database table definitions |
| JCL | 100% Automation | VBScript |
| Batch processes defined in Control-M | Manual integration of Tidal with converted application | Batch processes defined in Tidal Scheduler |
| Generated code, including manual re-factoring and polishing | Automated test cases for unit, integration and regression testing | Tested and debugged code delivered to the client |
Trinity can provide the same results whether you wish to migrate to .Net, Java, or some other platform.
Contact us today to find out how quickly and cost-effectively we can modernize your Natural / Adabas applications.
