Dear Reader,
Home office and social distancing dominated a large part of this year and required organizational changes. Nevertheless, we managed to implement business-critical projects on time and on budget together with our customers and partners. Once again it has been shown how much can be achieved by using automated solutions. We are proud to help our customers and partners to modernize their core applications and their development environments and processes during these difficult times and we say “Thank you” for the flexible and very pleasant cooperation.
A tip for the end of the year: Plan your product updates and training dates now!
We wish you happy and relaxing Holidays, as well as a healthy and happy New Year.
Your Delta Software Technology Team
Gothaer Systems starts migrating its IBM IMS Databases
Moving away from IMS/DB to DB2, that is the goal of Gothaer Systems.
Together with Delta, Gothaer Systems started this major project that affects many of their core applications.
First parts of the applications have already been freed from IMS/DB by using AMELIO, the automated transformation solution from Delta, and run problem-free with IBM DB2 in production.
Find out more about the cooperation between Gothaer Systems and Delta Software Technology ...
Gothaer Systems starts migrating its IBM IMS Databases
Gothaer Systems starts migrating its IBM IMS Databases
The project has successfully completed. You can find the project report here:
IMS Replacement at Gothaer: In Time – In Budget – In Scope
Together with Delta Software Technology GmbH, Gothaer Systems is consolidating its IMS databases into IBM Db2.
Gothaer Systems (GoSys) aims to migrate all its data stored in IMS/DB to new Db2 structures. IMS/DB data access calls in the existing COBOL programs (both native and generated with Delta ADS) should be replaced automatically, with the aim of completely replacing the IMS databases. Delta Software Technology (Delta) offers know-how and the right tools for this task. By building a tailor-made factory with AMELIO Modernization Platform (AMELIO), all necessary steps for the migration can be performed automatically.
Proof of Concept
In the first step, Delta presented the procedure and the basic functionality for the automated transformations with AMELIO. After a successful proof of concept, in which the concepts and techniques of the fully automatic transformation were verified, GoSys decided to go this path together with Delta.
Project started
We are currently in the middle of the project: In close coordination between GoSys and Delta, the AMELIO-Factory has been successfully configured and is constantly being expanded. Regular maintenance and further development continues during the setup phase. The resulting new versions of source modules are included in the ongoing AMELIO work. After the successful transformation of the applications, they are transferred to GoSys in order to check and approve these modules using meta-level testing.
The first packages with IMS databases and all of their data and applications have now been successfully transformed to use Db2 and are in productive use.
Get to know AMELIO and Delta as well
Due to the high degree of automation, transformations can be repeated, understood and reproduced at any time. Freeze periods are reduced to a few days. The migration can be divided into packages and the result is applications that can still be used and maintained without a footprint or vendor lock-in.
- Would you like to find out more about such migration projects or are you planning a modernization or refactoring?
- Do you want to migrate an application package to a new platform?
- Are you interested in mass change automation?
We would be happy to show you which options the AMELIO Modernization Platform offers you. We are looking forward to your contact.
About Gothaer Systems
„Gothaer Systems is the central IT service provider for the Gothaer Group. We ensure that Gothaer is always up to date with the latest information technology: through innovations and continuous further development of technology and organization. We also provide the infrastructure for the access to data and business processes. This is how we ensure a high level of IT quality within the group - and thus support Gothaer's business.“
Further Information
Here you can find more articles on the topic:
- IMS Replacement at Gothaer: In Time – In Budget – In Scope
- Provinzial realizes complete migration from IBM IMS/DB to IBM Db2 with Delta
- Automatically replacing IBM IMS/DB
- Successfully Replace IMS Databases
- IBM IMS/DB? Modernization Now!
- Modernization Project at BSQ Bauspar AG
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Gothaer Systems migrates its IBM IMS databases to IBM Db2 together with Delta Software Technology
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Safe Replacement of IMS Databases: How to Succeed!
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LzLabs teams up with Delta Software to ensure seamless application maintenance & development on open systems
Customers using Delta ADS to generate COBOL or PL/I can continue to run and maintain applications on LzLabs Software Defined Mainframe®
Learn more about the cooperation between LzLabs and Delta Software Technology ...
LzLabs teams up with Delta Software to ensure seamless application maintenance & development on open systems
LzLabs teams up with Delta Software to ensure seamless application maintenance & development on open systems
Insurance company assesses unified Micro Focus development environment with Delta Software
A modern development environment is the goal for the software developers of a large insurer.
Together with Micro Focus and Delta Software Technology, the insurance company examined the connection of Delta ADS to Micro Focus Enterprise Developer for Z.
Follow the path too and simplify the maintenance and development of your applications ...
Insurance company assesses unified Micro Focus development environment with Delta Software
Insurance company assesses unified Micro Focus development environment with Delta Software
A modern development environment is the goal for the software developers of a large insurer. Together with Micro Focus and Delta Software Technology, the insurance company examined the connection of Delta ADS to Micro Focus Enterprise Developer for Z.
The insurance company based in Germany successfully uses the Delta ADS for COBOL generator from Delta Software Technology (Delta) for decades. The ADS programs are developed on the host, maintained and then generated in COBOL tailor-made to the customer’s requirements.
In order to provide the developers with a modern development environment, several approaches from various manufacturers were assessed. The long-term goal is to offer Java developers as well as COBOL and Delta ADS developers a uniform platform. The decision was made to perform a more in-depth analysis of Micro Focus Enterprise Developer for Z (Micro Focus EDz) and Delta ADS on Eclipse. The use of Delta ADS on Eclipse has the advantage that it can be integrated directly into all Eclipse-based environments.
Added value created
With the help of Delta ADS on Eclipse (respectively ADS on Micro Focus EDz), the development and maintenance of the Delta programs is greatly simplified and modernized. By using analysis and coverage functions as well as the use of the post-generation debugger, the maintenance is accelerated because the application heirs have easier access to the ADS programs. It is also possible to offload the generation process of the ADS programs to the PC. This saves, among other things, valuable CPU time on the mainframe.
Delta ADS on Micro Focus Enterprise Developer for Z
Thanks to the good partnership between Micro Focus GmbH and Delta, nothing stood in the way of expanding the Delta ADS connection to Micro Focus EDz. The development and generation processes of Delta ADS programs were seamlessly integrated into Micro Focus EDz. This made it possible to provide the insurance company with a uniform solution.
The insurance company has now successfully put this joint solution through its paces and found it to be good. Nothing stands in the way of a long-term use.
Go the same way
Would you also like to provide your developers with a modern and integrated development environment? Get in touch with us, ADS on Eclipse is also available for other Eclipse-based development environments and Microsoft Visual Studio. In addition, active Delta customers receive the upgrade to the latest Delta ADS version free of charge.
Go the same way and simplify the maintenance and development of your Delta ADS applications - the application heirs will thank you.
„For us it is and has always been of crucial importance that the Delta tools are supported in the long term. This also means that they are constantly being developed to meet new requirements, always on the cutting edge of technology. An excellent example of this is the extensive integration into the open standard Eclipse. That fits perfectly into our strategy of a modern and future-proof development landscape.“
Peter Bauch,Management Board, B+S Banksysteme
More about ADS on Eclipse
Would you like to know how you can easily perform your application development with ADS under Eclipse? Please contact us.
Support Information: New Product Versions available
We have released new versions of the following products:
- ADS for COBOL & PL/I
- ADS on Eclipse
- ADS on Micro Focus EDz
- Generator Engine (all platforms)
- Delta SCOUT² & Delta SourceAssistant
- License Management
You can find more information about new features and fixes in the release notes at the support area of our website ...
Support Information: New Product Versions available
Support Information: New Product Versions available
Today we have released new versions of the following products:
- ADS for COBOL (6.4.3) - for all platforms
- ADS for COBOL (5.1 C)
- Generator Engine for IBM z/OS (6.4.13)
Please also note the following information:
- New: Delta ADS 6 on Mainframe
Delta ADS 6's new capabilities to more efficiently develop, maintain, and test the ADB-generated COBOL and PL / I applications and the application frameworks created with ADS MACRO ...
You can find more information about new features and fixes in the release notes at the support area of our website.
Get information and updates right now. You’ll find the list of our current product versions here.
New Delta Training Courses: Register Now
Our training courses and workshops help you to use Delta tools efficiently and to optimise the development of your applications: Practice-oriented and taking into account your main areas of interest.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the training courses will only be offered online in the first half of 2021.
Here you will find the new dates ...
New Delta Training Courses: Register Now
New Delta Training Courses: Register Now
Anyone using tools to automate software development needs in-depth knowledge of the methods, modes of operation, and capabilities of the tools. And not just "in principle", but in relation to the concrete environment and task.
Our training courses and workshops help you to use Delta tools efficiently and to optimise the development of your applications: Practice-oriented and taking into account your main areas of interest.
ADS Basics - ADS for Administrators - ADS Refresher - ADS on Eclipse - ADS What's new
Here you will find the new dates:
- 05.03.-07.03.2024 and 17.09.-19.09.2024 - ADS Basics
- 12.03.-14.03.2024 and 25.09.-26.09.2024 - ADS for Administrators
- 20.03.-21.03.2024 and 09.10.-10.10.2024 - ADS Refresher
- 03.04.-04.04.2024 and 29.10.-30.10.2024 - ADS on Eclipse
- 17.04.2024 and 06.11.2024 - ADS What’s new
- 24.04.2024 and 13.11.2024 - Delta DETAB
Learn more about our trainings and workshops ...
Contact us to discuss your requirements for a customised training.
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- Gothaer Systems starts migrating its IBM IMS Databases
- LzLabs teams up with Delta Software to ensure seamless application maintenance & development on open systems
- Insurance company assesses unified Micro Focus development environment with Delta Software
- Support Information: New Product Versions available
- New Delta Training Courses: Register Now
Some time ago, we released Delta ADS 6 on PC as a new version of our proven generative development system for the application development on PC platforms. With this new Delta ADS, we offer many new functions that significantly improve the understanding of the applications and facilitate the development and maintenance of the extensive and complex COBOL and PL/I applications.
Many of our customers see the mainframe and the generative development of their important core applications with Delta ADS as a strategic part of their IT environment. This is why we are now making Delta ADS 6 available for mainframe environments as well.
The new Delta ADS 6 on Mainframe can be used stand-alone on the mainframe or together with Delta ADS 6 on PC.
Delta ADS 6 on Mainframe
With its new functions, Delta ADS 6 helps to develop, maintain and test the COBOL and PL/I applications generated with ADS and the application frameworks created with ADS MACRO even more efficiently:
- ADS 6 improves the understanding of applications developed with ADS.
- Language extensions for ADS MACRO simplify the development and maintenance of the application frameworks.
- The Macro Optimizer makes existing macros easier to read and maintain. With its help, the new language extensions can be automatically applied to existing macros.
- Various restrictions for variables, parameters and statements have been loosened or removed.
- Support for new data types such as BLOB, CLOB, XML, etc.
- And more ...
All these functions help to better understand the applications and to train and familiarise new colleagues faster.
The Best of Both Worlds: Delta ADS 6 on Mainframe combined with Delta ADS 6 on PC
Delta ADS 6 for the development on PC offers a number of additional functions that benefit in particular from the possibilities available on modern Microsoft Windows platforms. We offer Delta ADS 6 for the development under Eclipse, Micro Focus EDz, IBM IDz and Microsoft Visual Studio. The combined usage of Delta ADS 6 on Mainframe and Delta ADS 6 on PC offers you many advantages:
- Load reduction for the mainframe environment with regard to development, generation and testing through cross-generation
- The development process can be flexibly adapted while using the existing infrastructure and integrating the source management systems.
- Development, code generation and testing can be executed on PC as well as on mainframe.
- The modules are identical and therefore arbitrarily interchangeable between the environments.
- The Post-generation Debugger simplifies the understanding and testing of the generation process.
- Discovery and application mining for ADS applications help to (re-)document the applications and provide reliable information for the evaluation of the applications.
- And more ...
Now that Delta ADS 6 is available in both worlds, development, generation and testing can be transferred to the PC on demand without any loss of functionality and security.
Release
Delta ADS 6 on Mainframe is currently undergoing pre-release testing at customer sites.
At the end of 2019, Delta ADS 6 for COBOL will be released for IBM z/OS. This will be followed by versions for the other systems.
The response from our customers has been very positive. We are convinced that the new functions of Delta ADS 6 on Mainframe offer you many advantages.
The new ADS 6 enables us to improve the efficiency and quality of our software development and maintenance once again. For example, the new functions for the detailed documentation and description of the generation process help us to make changes and enhancements to our extensive, complex applications safely and quickly.
(Oswald Klackl, Head of Architecture & Quality Management, B+S Banksysteme, Austria)
Automatically optimized macros with new syntax, identifiers, indentation
Develop More Efficiently and Better Understand Your Applications
Request more information now to update your ADS development system.
Dear Reader,
The importance of mainframes for IT landscapes in large companies has changed: Whereas they were previously regarded as a necessary evil and condemned to extinction like dinosaurs, today they are increasingly seen as a strategically important element for the future.
Discuss with experts and users at the Mainframe Technology Workshop.
We also have news for you on generative development with Delta ADS, so that you can make your development even more efficient - on mainframes and PCs.
We wish you informative reading and look forward to your feedback.
Your Delta Software Technology Team
1. New: Delta ADS 6 on Mainframe
Some time ago, we released Delta ADS 6 on PC as a new version of our proven generative development system for the application development on PC platforms. With this new Delta ADS, we offer many new functions that significantly improve the understanding of the applications and facilitate the development and maintenance of the extensive and complex COBOL and PL/I applications.
Many of our customers see the mainframe and the generative development of their important core applications with Delta ADS as a strategic part of their IT environment. This is why we are now making Delta ADS 6 available for mainframe environments as well.
Further information can be found here:
New: Delta ADS 6 on Mainframe
New: Delta ADS 6 on Mainframe
Some time ago, we released Delta ADS 6 on PC as a new version of our proven generative development system for the application development on PC platforms. With this new Delta ADS, we offer many new functions that significantly improve the understanding of the applications and facilitate the development and maintenance of the extensive and complex COBOL and PL/I applications.
Many of our customers see the mainframe and the generative development of their important core applications with Delta ADS as a strategic part of their IT environment. This is why we are now making Delta ADS 6 available for mainframe environments as well.
The new Delta ADS 6 on Mainframe can be used stand-alone on the mainframe or together with Delta ADS 6 on PC.
Delta ADS 6 on Mainframe
With its new functions, Delta ADS 6 helps to develop, maintain and test the COBOL and PL/I applications generated with ADS and the application frameworks created with ADS MACRO even more efficiently:
- ADS 6 improves the understanding of applications developed with ADS.
- Language extensions for ADS MACRO simplify the development and maintenance of the application frameworks.
- The Macro Optimizer makes existing macros easier to read and maintain. With its help, the new language extensions can be automatically applied to existing macros.
- Various restrictions for variables, parameters and statements have been loosened or removed.
- Support for new data types such as BLOB, CLOB, XML, etc.
- And more ...
All these functions help to better understand the applications and to train and familiarise new colleagues faster.
The Best of Both Worlds: Delta ADS 6 on Mainframe combined with Delta ADS 6 on PC
Delta ADS 6 for the development on PC offers a number of additional functions that benefit in particular from the possibilities available on modern Microsoft Windows platforms. We offer Delta ADS 6 for the development under Eclipse, Micro Focus EDz, IBM IDz and Microsoft Visual Studio. The combined usage of Delta ADS 6 on Mainframe and Delta ADS 6 on PC offers you many advantages:
- Load reduction for the mainframe environment with regard to development, generation and testing through cross-generation
- The development process can be flexibly adapted while using the existing infrastructure and integrating the source management systems.
- Development, code generation and testing can be executed on PC as well as on mainframe.
- The modules are identical and therefore arbitrarily interchangeable between the environments.
- The Post-generation Debugger simplifies the understanding and testing of the generation process.
- Discovery and application mining for ADS applications help to (re-)document the applications and provide reliable information for the evaluation of the applications.
- And more ...
Now that Delta ADS 6 is available in both worlds, development, generation and testing can be transferred to the PC on demand without any loss of functionality and security.
Release
Delta ADS 6 on Mainframe is currently undergoing pre-release testing at customer sites.
At the end of 2019, Delta ADS 6 for COBOL will be released for IBM z/OS. This will be followed by versions for the other systems.
The response from our customers has been very positive. We are convinced that the new functions of Delta ADS 6 on Mainframe offer you many advantages.
The new ADS 6 enables us to improve the efficiency and quality of our software development and maintenance once again. For example, the new functions for the detailed documentation and description of the generation process help us to make changes and enhancements to our extensive, complex applications safely and quickly.
(Oswald Klackl, Head of Architecture & Quality Management, B+S Banksysteme, Austria)
Automatically optimized macros with new syntax, identifiers, indentation
Develop More Efficiently and Better Understand Your Applications
Request more information now to update your ADS development system.
2. Mainframe Technology Workshop of T-Systems
"The mainframe is an important component of a modern, holistic cloud strategy. At the Mainframe Technology Workshop 2019, the community will discuss real use cases and important milestones with specialists and customers." (T-Systems)
On November 12, 2019, T-Systems will host a Mainframe Technology Workshop in Ludwigsburg, Germany. Customers, partners, experts and industry analysts will discuss top issues of mainframe users and present solutions.
As a partner of T-Systems, Delta Software Technology reports on "Application Modernisation in Parallel to Ongoing Operation - That's How It's Safe," explains the key points and pitfalls in modernisation projects and highlights solutions.
Please find further information and the registration here ...
Mainframe Technology Workshop of T-Systems
Mainframe Technology Workshop of T-Systems
"The mainframe is an important component of a modern, holistic cloud strategy. At the Mainframe Technology Workshop 2019, the community will discuss real use cases and important milestones with specialists and customers." (T-Systems)
T-Systems organises a Mainframe Technology Workshop in Ludwigsburg, Germany, on November 12, 2019. At this one-day event, T-Systems brings together customers, partners, experts and industry analysts to discuss top issues of mainframe users and to present solutions. (Conference language is German)
16. Mainframe Technology Workshop
12th November 2019, Ludwigsburg, Germany
In the breakout session "Application Modernisation in Parallel to Ongoing Operation - That's How It’s Safe", Delta Software Technology, as a partner of T-Systems, will report on the sticking points and pitfalls of these projects and demonstrate solutions using the example of a customer project in the mainframe area.
Breakout Session
"Application Modernisation in Parallel to Ongoing Operation - That's How It’s Safe"
Contents
The foundation of business-critical applications has often evolved over decades. During this time, the applications were changed and further developed. New technologies were introduced, partly without completely removing the old technologies.
Modernisations such as clean-up, refactoring, technology exchange and standardisation as well as platform migration are necessary to meet new requirements, improve performance and maintainability, and increase the sustainability of the backend applications.
The documentation of the applications and the knowledge about what was implemented and why it was implemented that way has been lost over time.
So, how do you determine which parts of your application are relevant to the task? What do you do with the dependencies? What about the risks? How do you find all the sticking points? How do you organise change processes? What needs to be tested? What about parallel changes and further development?…
The solution lies in the precisely targeted analysis prior to a modernisation project, the complete automation of the changes and the flexible organisation of the project processes.
Referencing a customer project in the mainframe area, we show you how you can safely and reliably carry out a complex modernisation of your applications in parallel to ongoing operation.
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Our Speaker
Dr. Daniela Schilling
Dr. Daniela Schilling is Managing Director of Delta Software Technology.
Further Information
Please find further information and the registration here ...
You cannot attend? Then contact us, we would be happy to schedule another appointment.
3. New Delta ADS Release Supports New Data Types
Digitisation requires not only new forms of processing, but also new data types. The now released Delta ADS for COBOL offers you additional functions for creating Data Access Servers for IBM DB2 and Oracle and supports the usage of new SQL data types such as BLOB, CLOB, XML, etc.
These data types are defined differently in the different database systems. As always, Delta ADS compensates these differences automatically, following the principle "Single Source - Multiple Target".
In addition, the new Delta ADS also includes new features that improve performance. Please refer to our Release Notes for further information.
Contact us and order your update for your Delta ADS now.
New Delta ADS Release Supports New Data Types
New Delta ADS Release Supports New Data Types
Digitisation requires not only new forms of processing, but also new data types. Examples of this are new data types such as
- BLOB - Binary Large Object
- CLOB - Character Large Object
- XML, etc.
These data types enable the storage of large unstructured binary data objects such as image, audio or multimedia files as part of the corresponding data records directly in the respective database or, in the case of CLOB, to process data in international Unicode format.
Delta ADS 6.4.0
The now released Delta ADS for COBOL 6.4.0 offers you additional functions for creating Data Access Servers for IBM DB2 and Oracle and supports the usage of new SQL data types such as BLOB, CLOB, XML, etc.
These data types are defined differently in the different database systems. As always, Delta ADS compensates these differences automatically, following the principle "Single Source - Multiple Target".
In addition, the new Delta ADS 6.4.0 also includes new features that improve performance. Please refer to our Release Notes for further information.
Contact us and order your update for your Delta ADS now.
4. Delta ADS Plugin for Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 available
With ADS on Visual Studio you can now standardize your working environments for the application development. ADS on Visual Studio smoothly integrates all ADS tools into your development environment.
This plugin is now also available for Microsoft Visual Studio 2019.
In addition to Visual Studio, plug-ins for Eclipse-based development environments are also available such as Micro Focus Enterprise Developer for z.
Further information can be found here:
Delta ADS Plugin for Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 available
Delta ADS Plugin for Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 available
With ADS on Visual Studio you can now standardize your working environments for the application development. ADS on Visual Studio smoothly integrates all ADS tools into your development environment.
This plugin is now also available for Microsoft Visual Studio 2019.
In addition to Visual Studio, plug-ins for Eclipse-based development environments are also available such as Micro Focus Enterprise Developer for z.
Further information can be found here:
https://delta-software.com/link.php?en=6306
Bedag: Same Development Environment for Different Programming Languages
A uniform process control and development environment for the different programming languages is the goal of many enterprises. The Bedag Informatik AG modernizes its development environment and combines the (Viacar) development in C# and Delta ADS in a .NET framework under Microsoft Visual Studio.
Read more here:
https://delta-software.com/link.php?en=6291
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- New: Delta ADS 6 on Mainframe
- Mainframe Technology Workshop of T-Systems
- New Delta ADS Release Supports New Data Types
- Delta ADS Plugin for Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 available
Dear Reader,
The replacement of technologies for core applications is complex, expensive and risky. Our tailored and flexible automated solutions will eliminate these obstacles. The articles in this newsletter give you some examples for solutions.
In addition, we have new product versions, training courses and events for you.
We wish you informative reading and look forward to your feedback.
Your Delta Software Technology Team
1. Successful Assessment for Replacing VORELLE
The assessment for the replacement and consolidation of decision table generators has been completed successfully. Delta Software Technology assessed, for a large insurer, the possibility of an automated conversion from VORELLE to DETAB but also to Plain COBOL.
Read more about replacing VORELLE with reduced test effort here ...
Successful Assessment for Replacing VORELLE
Successful Assessment for Replacing VORELLE
The assessment for the replacement and consolidation of decision table generators has been completed successfully. Delta Software Technology assessed, for a large insurer, the possibility of an automated conversion from VORELLE to DETAB but also to Plain COBOL.
Read more about replacing VORELLE with reduced test effort here ...
Decision tables simplify the software development
Many of our customers are convinced by the decision table technique. Decision tables simplify the software development and enable an implementation with a clear source code. They are an important method for the clearly structured description of complex facts and the related rules.
The development and maintenance of a complex rulebook in native COBOL or PL/I code is too time-consuming and inefficient for our customers, that is why they have been using decision table generators for a long time.
Consolidate or replace decision table generators?
Many companies use several generators, e.g. VORELLE (gadiv, formerly mbp), LF-ET (Lohrfink), Delta DETAB (Delta Software Technology) etc. for COBOL and PL/I.
If the maintenance of applications is transferred to new developers, they have to adopt the different techniques. So, it makes sense to consolidate generators that fulfil the same task.
In addition, many generators are already at the end of life and the maintenance would have to be performed on the generated code in the future. This generated code is very complex, nested and barely legible. Therefore, the code is hard to understand and to maintain. An automated consolidation into a table generator that will remain in maintenance in the future, prevents an increase in complexity, thus facilitating the maintenance.
Assessed possible strategies
In an assessment for a large insurer we have assessed possible strategies if and how an automated transfer from VORELLE to DETAB is possible. For that purpose, all COBOL and Delta ADS sources that contain decision tables, have been analysed and evaluated with respect to their use. In addition, a test strategy was developed, which keeps the test effort low and yet proves the correctness.
Results of the assessment
The result of the assessment was clear:
- An automated transfer from VORELLE to DETAB is possible.
- The syntax of the two generators is very similar: A re-training of previous VORELLE users is not or only minimally necessary.
Different solution variants
As a result of the assessment, possible solution variants were proposed to the customer how the VORELLE tables can be transferred. Most of the tables can be automatically converted into almost identical DETAB tables. In addition, the customer has the option to transform smaller tables directly into easily readable code. For the transformation our AMELIO Modernization Platform can be adopted to fit the customers’ need.
Reduced testing effort
AMELIO automates the changes – 100%. Thus, it is not necessary to test all transformed programs. Instead, the rules for the changes are tested in advance according to the principle of meta-level testing. In this way, the test effort can be drastically reduced compared to conventional test methods.
“AMELIOs Meta-Level Testing verifies the transformation rules - not the transformed programs."
Conclusion
The automated transfer from VORELLE to DETAB or native Cobol code is possible and the test effort remains manageable.
As a further result, we were able to create an individual project and financial plan for the customer in order to minimize risks and to present costs transparently.
The desire of the customer to bring about a consolidation of the generators can be met - and is also clearly our recommendation.
And your decision table generator?
If you also plan to consolidate, replace or modernize your decision table generators, then contact us directly.
2. Aquila Heywood introduces ADS on Eclipse
Aquila Heywood improves its Delta ADS software development by moving to Eclipse and Update to Delta ADS 6.
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Aquila Heywood introduces ADS on Eclipse
Aquila Heywood introduces ADS on Eclipse
Aquila Heywood improves its Delta ADS software development by moving to Eclipse and Update to Delta ADS 6.
Aquila Heywood develops and maintains its “Altair” pensions administration package with Delta ADS for COBOL for decades. During these years the development has been performed using the SCOUT² development environment provided by Delta Software Technology.
As most of the other software development at Aquila Heywood is done in an Eclipse environment already, the decision was made to migrate the Delta ADS development to Eclipse too. Delta Software Technology provided the Plug-in to support the Delta ADS generation process and the resulting object types. With this change to one single development platform Aquila Heywood want to improve the productivity of its development. The extra functionality that is provided with the Eclipse Plug-in contributes to that.
ADS on Eclipse
Delta’s Eclipse Environment, ADS on Eclipse, facilitates the development with Delta ADS by integrating Editor, Generator and the Post-Generation debugger under Eclipse. The modern environment enables better understanding of the application as the generator provides more information about the use of the components that contribute to the application. It also provides all modern handling like chroma coding, code folding and coding assistance as well as extensive documentation possibilities. In addition, it allows a seamless integration of the development with ADS in the overall development process.
“After installation of the Plug-in we tested the generated output and it was 100% identical. Therefore we will go productive with the Delta ADS development on Eclipse in the beginning of 2019. As developers we can now work in one environment without having to switch between SCOUT² and Eclipse.”
Graham Dohren - Senior Developer at Aquila Heywood
About Aquila Heywood
Aquila Heywood is the largest provider of life, pensions, and investment policy administration platforms in the UK and Ireland, and the fifth largest across the EU. More than 200 commercial and public sector organisations use its highly scalable administration platform to manage the lifetime financial security of over ten million working pensions members, and make over 20 million payments a year to retirees.
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3. IBM IMS/DB? Modernization Now!
"If it wasn't for IMS DB, we would have re-platformed our applications already", many users judge. An automation of the migration will minimise efforts and guarantee success. AMELIO Modernization Platform can accomplish that this task for you.
Learn more here ...
IBM IMS/DB? Modernization Now!
IBM IMS/DB? Modernization Now!
"If it wasn’t for IBM IMS/DB, we would have re-platformed our applications already"
Fast and reliable used to be the key factors for selecting IMS/DB as database system for mission critical data. During the last decades SQL databases have become as performing on a whole range of (cheaper) platforms. Also, the knowledge of IMS/DB is dwindling while at the same time SQL DBA’s are easier to find. The data however, that is stored in those mainframes databases, is nowadays needed and used in a much wider range of applications. These applications are running on mobiles and in the cloud. Providing the data from your existing IMS/DB applications to such modern apps is not an easy task. SQL databases are better equipped for it but that means a continuous replication of data.
The real solution would be to keep the implemented business logic but have the data in a SQL Database. For this major exercise a lot has to be changed in your applications. All these changes of the data access architecture and logic means a lot of work and risk of errors. Hence a lot of testing is needed.
Automation could minimize many of these efforts. It is this task that AMELIO Modernization Platform can perform for you: 100% automatically with only a short freeze period and a limited test impact.
Automatic Transformation
AMELIO Modernization Platform provides a fully configurable Software Modernization Factory. It imports and analyses all your source code. All relevant issues are identified and the factory is prepared for a modernization according to your wishes. Selected parts of the application, that cover all the identified issues, are modernized to validate the future situation. After extensive Meta-Level testing of these selected parts, the rest of applications are fed into the factory and the final modernization is performed.
This strategy enables you to adapt your future environment to new wishes or effects discovered during testing without redoing anything. It also enables normal maintenance during most of the modernization project. Only shortly before the final migration a short freeze is necessary. This enables you to adjust the outcome of the final modernization until very late in the project without the risk of running out of time and budget.
Meta-Level Testing
If an 100% automated process performs a task we can assume that, in contrast to human intervention, it always performs this task in the same reliable manner. It is therefore not necessary to test the outcome of all individual tasks that have been performed by an automated process. In our case a representative subset of the applications changed is enough to prove the correct functioning of the factory. This is what Meta-Level testing is about.
Here you find more information about AMELIO Modernization Platform and its extremely power for automated modernization of your applications. Get in touch right now – we are ready to help.
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Gothaer Systems migrates its IBM IMS databases to IBM Db2 together with Delta Software Technology
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With the tools and services from Delta Software Technology, Provinzial Rheinland finished the complete application and data migration from IBM IMS/DB to IBM Db2, automated and securely, of over 75 IBM IMS databases and over 36,000 artefacts.
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Safe Replacement of IMS Databases: How to Succeed!
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4. Let's meet Delta
Following you will find some great events that we recommend and at which you can meet us and our partners:
- SVA: Mainframe Dayz
- IBM: Application Development Days
- Micro Focus Universe
- GSE European Modernization Working Group Meeting
Please give us a call to schedule a date. We are looking forward to seeing you.
Let's meet Delta
Let's meet Delta
We wish you a Happy New Year 2019!
Following you will find some great events that we recommend and at which you can meet us and our partners:
- SVA: Mainframe Dayz | 19.-20.02.2019, Wiesbaden, Germany
- IBM: Application Development Days 2019 | 12.-14.03.2019, Boeblingen, Germany
- Micro Focus Universe | 26.-28.03.2019, Vienna, Austria #MicroFocusUniverse
- GSE European Modernization Working Group Meeting | 01.-03.04.2019, Prague, Czech Republic
Please give us a call to schedule a date. We are looking forward to seeing you.
https://delta-software.com/link.php?en=6955
5. Support information: New Product Versions available
Today we have released new versions of the following products:
- ADS for COBOL
- ADS on Eclipse
- ADS on Micro Focus EDz
- Generator Engine for Windows
- Generator Engine for IBM z/OS
- ADS on Visual Studio
You can find more information about new features and fixes in the release notes at the support area of our website.
Support information: New Product Versions available
Support information: New Product Versions available
Today we have released new versions of the following products:
- ADS for COBOL (6.3.0)
- ADS on Eclipse (7.0.0)
- ADS on Micro Focus EDz (7.0.0 Beta)
- Generator Engine for Windows (6.3.0)
- Generator Engine for IBM z/OS (6.3.0 Beta)
- ADS on Visual Studio (1.1.3)
You can find more information about new features and fixes in the release notes at the support area of our website:
https://delta-software.com/link.php?en=6837
6. New Delta Training Courses: Register Now
Our training courses and workshops help you to use Delta tools efficiently and to optimise the development of your applications: Practice-oriented and taking into account your main areas of interest.
Here you will find the new dates ...
New Delta Training Courses: Register Now
New Delta Training Courses: Register Now
Anyone using tools to automate software development needs in-depth knowledge of the methods, modes of operation, and capabilities of the tools. And not just "in principle", but in relation to the concrete environment and task.
Our training courses and workshops help you to use Delta tools efficiently and to optimise the development of your applications: Practice-oriented and taking into account your main areas of interest.
ADS Basics - ADS for Administrators - ADS Refresher - ADS on Eclipse - ADS What's new
Here you will find the new dates:
- 05.03.-07.03.2024 and 17.09.-19.09.2024 - ADS Basics
- 12.03.-14.03.2024 and 25.09.-26.09.2024 - ADS for Administrators
- 20.03.-21.03.2024 and 09.10.-10.10.2024 - ADS Refresher
- 03.04.-04.04.2024 and 29.10.-30.10.2024 - ADS on Eclipse
- 17.04.2024 and 06.11.2024 - ADS What’s new
- 24.04.2024 and 13.11.2024 - Delta DETAB
Learn more about our trainings and workshops ...
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Content
- Successful Assessment for Replacing VORELLE
- Aquila Heywood introduces ADS on Eclipse
- IBM IMS/DB? Modernization Now!
- Let's meet Delta
- Support information: New Product Versions available
- New Delta Training Courses: Register Now
Dear Reader,
small things often have an enormous effect. This also holds true for decision tables: There are many good reasons to continue using this method in software development.
In addition, we have new product versions and training courses for you.
We wish you informative reading and look forward to your feedback.
Your Delta Software Technology Team
1. Decision Table Generators: Modernise, Consolidate or Replace?
Decision tables simplify software development and enable the implementation with clearly structured source code. Some enterprises use multiple decision table generators like VORELLE, LF-ET, SWT, DETAB and others, and the application heirs have to cope with the different techniques.
What are the options for the modernisation, consolidation, and cost reduction?
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Decision Table Generators: Modernise, Consolidate or Replace?
Decision Table Generators: Modernise, Consolidate or Replace?
Decision tables simplify software development and enable the implementation with clearly structured source code. Some enterprises use multiple decision table generators and the application heirs have to cope with the different techniques. An automated consolidation would facilitate the maintenance and reduce costs.
Decision tables are an important method for the clearly structured description of complex matters and the corresponding rule systems. The automated implementation of the decision logic in COBOL, PL/I and other languages is supported by various decision table generators, like VORELLE (gadiv, prev. mbp), LF-ET (Lohrfink), SWT (SWT), DETAB (Delta Software Technology) and others.
As part of the modernisation of their development environments and their IT applications, many companies today are reviewing their usage of these development tools:
- The manufacturers have discontinued the development and support for some decision table generators.
- Some generators are not available for new platforms.
- Some companies use several of these generators resulting in increased cost for tools, training and application maintenance.
Know-how Transfer and Costs
The usage of different generators for similar tasks requires that enterprises must train and keep the corresponding expertise. This unnecessarily complicates the transfer to new generations of application heirs. Therefore, it is advisable to consolidate the generator use and to stay with one technology only. In addition to facilitating the knowledge transfer, (maintenance) costs for third-party components can also be saved.
First Step: The Assessment
With the help of these generators, many very complex decision tables have been implemented. In order to get an overview of where which technology has been used in the applications and to what extent, Delta offers a comprehensive investigation. Such an assessment evaluates the feasibility of an automated replacement, consolidation or migration, shows different solution variants and identifies the problems for the project in order to create a reliable decision basis and to eliminate the risks.
Analysis, Evaluation and Transformation of Decision Tables
Using the example of a consolidation from VORELLE to DETAB.
All sources containing VORELLE table definitions are automatically analysed and evaluated with regard to the functionality actually used. For each function category it is examined how it can be replaced and solution variants are suggested, e.g:
- The code can be transformed 1:1 into the syntax of another decision table generator.
- The code can automatically be transformed into well maintainable, native source code.
- And other solution variants ...
For the automated transformation, Delta uses its proven AMELIO Modernization Platform.
And by the Way …
Our analysis tools can also enable you to do it the other way round: You can analyse complex native source code and have the contained decision logic automatically converted into clearly arranged decision tables (Delta DETAB). This helps with modernisation projects, facilitates the exchange with business departments and serves the knowledge transfer.
Find the Perfect Solution
Would you like to …
… facilitate the maintenance of your applications?
… secure the knowledge about your applications and pass on the know-how to the application heirs?
… consolidate or replace third-party products?
Our tailor-made assessment reliably identifies and evaluates the critical points and challenges for your project. This enables you to find a solution that perfectly matches your specific application and tool landscape. Of course, we can also support you in planning the on-time and on-budget implementation of your project.
Reach out and talk to us today. We are looking forward to working with you to develop the perfect solution for you.
2. Decision Table Generator Delta DETAB on Eclipse
Delta DETAB now available stand-alone for the development on Eclipse
Our customers use Delta DETAB to easily specify complex decision logic and to efficiently generate error-free COBOL or PL/I code.
As part of the development system Delta ADS, DETAB is already available on Eclipse for some time. With Delta DETAB on Eclipse we now provide the opportunity to use the decision table technique independently under Eclipse.
We would like to introduce you to DETAB on Eclipse. Get in touch with us and benefit from the advantages of DETAB on Eclipse.
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Decision Table Generator Delta DETAB on Eclipse
Decision Table Generator Delta DETAB on Eclipse
Delta DETAB now available stand-alone for the development on Eclipse
Decision tables are an excellent method to describe complex issues in an easily understandable way. Delta DETAB accelerates and simplifies the software development through the automated, generative implementation of decision tables in COBOL and PL/I.
As a component of the development system Delta ADS, Delta DETAB is already available on Eclipse for some time. Now we provide Delta DETAB also stand-alone integrated in Eclipse.
Thus, the advantages of the modern development environment Eclipse can now also be used for DETAB standalone and the use of the decision table technology can seamlessly be integrated into current processes.
Further information about Delta DETAB
Our customers successfully use Delta DETAB to easily specify and to efficiently implement complex decision logic, to simplify the communication with business departments and to reduce development and maintenance costs.
Here you can find more information about Delta DETAB.
Get to know the benefits of DETAB on Eclipse
We would like to introduce you to DETAB on Eclipse. Get in touch with us and benefit from the advantages of DETAB on Eclipse.
3. Support Information: New Product Versions Available
We have released new versions of the following products:
- Delta ADS for PL/I (5.2)
- ADS on Visual Studio (1.1.0)
- Delta DETAB on Eclipse
You can find more information about new features and fixes in the release notes at the support area of our website ...
Support Information: New Product Versions Available
Support Information: New Product Versions Available
Updating the development tools often collides with the project work. Why change something that works? But there are good reasons to update to the current versions:
- Old product versions cause higher costs.
- New features accelerate the development.
- Error corrections avoid workarounds that make the next update more difficult.
You do not know how much your individual installations differ from the standard products and how to determine dependencies and efforts? We help you to update to the current product versions quickly and easily.
We have released new products and new versions of the following products:
- Delta ADS for PL/I (5.2)
- ADS on Visual Studio (1.1.0)
- New: Delta DETAB on Eclipse
You can find more information about new features and fixes in the release notes at the support area of our website.
Get information and updates right now. You’ll find the list of our current product versions here.
4. Next Training Courses starts in November
Anyone using tools to automate software development needs in-depth knowledge of the methods, methods, and capabilities of the tools. And not just "in principle", but in relation to the concrete environment and task.
Our training courses and workshops help you to use Delta tools efficiently and to optimise the development of your applications: practice-oriented, taking into account your main focus.
ADS Basics – ADS for Administrators – ADS Refresh – ADS on Eclipse – ADS What’s new
The next training courses start in November ...
Next Training Courses starts in November
Next Training Courses starts in November
Anyone using tools to automate software development needs in-depth knowledge of the methods, modes of operation, and capabilities of the tools. And not just "in principle", but in relation to the concrete environment and task.
Our training courses and workshops help you to use Delta tools efficiently and to optimise the development of your applications: practice-oriented, taking into account your main focus.
ADS Basics - ADS for Administrators - ADS Refresher - ADS on Eclipse - ADS What's new
Here are the new training schedules for the second half of 2018:
- 06.-08.11.2018 - ADS Basics
- 13.-15.11.2018 - ADS for Administrators
- 20.-21.11.2018 - ADS Refresher
- 27.-28.11.2018 - ADS on Eclipse
- 04.12.2018 - ADS What’s new
Learn more about our trainings and workshops ...
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- Decision Table Generators: Modernise, Consolidate or Replace?
- Decision Table Generator Delta DETAB on Eclipse
- Support Information: New Product Versions Available
- Next Training Courses starts in November
Dear Reader,
- Legacy is productive software, existing investment, reliable basis of business processes.
- Legacy is outdated, no longer understandable, a brake block for new development.
Which of these statements do you agree with? And what does one have to do with the other?
With the articles in today's Delta Newsletter, we share with you some insights of how you can free your software legacy from negative characteristics and how you can unleash with little effort resources for important new development.
We wish you an inspiring read.
Your Delta Software Technology Team
1. Insurer Makes Important Core Application Fit for the Future
A large insurer has renovated a key component of his core application with the solutions from Delta Software Technology. Delta's AMELIO-Tools for automated analyses, code clean-up and re-documentation ensure a future-proof application infrastructure and an easy know-how transfer to the application heirs.
To solve the issue, Delta proposed a automated multi step approach, consisting of code clean-up, thorough analysis of the sources, refactoring, re-documentation and workshops for knowhow transfer.
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Insurer Makes Important Core Application Fit for the Future
Insurer Makes Important Core Application Fit for the Future
A large insurer has renovated a key component of his core application with the solutions from Delta Software Technology (Delta). Delta's AMELIO-Tools for automated analyses, code clean-up and re-documentation ensure a future-proof application infrastructure and an easy know-how transfer to the application heirs.
In the 1980s the insurer's IT developed a COBOL application for the screen control. Until now this forms an important part of the application infrastructure. Since its initial development this part of the application and the entire application have evolved: Extensions have been added over and over again. The screen control has been maintained by several generations of developers. Different programming styles and COBOL versions have been used for the further development. Moreover, the screen control has been optimized according to former criteria. These criteria are no longer applicable. However, over time all of these measures have greatly affected understandability and maintainability.
The screen control has proven itself over the years. For this reason, it was decided to make this part of the established and reliable application fit for the future to preserve the proven application logic and to ensure the investments effected. The improvement of the application should be carried out safely and with as less effort as possible.
Fit for the future
For making the application fit, the following measures should be implemented:
- Clean-up and upgrade (refactoring) of the source code, so that it will be understandable and maintainable again and that changes and extensions can be implemented efficiently.
- Creating a technical documentation to better understand what the application does and how it works.
- Knowledge transfer about the application and its functionality to new developers.
A manual implementation of the measures would have been risky and inefficient:
- Efforts and risks could not be estimated.
- The daily business would have been disturbed due to a strong resource commitment.
- Massive testing efforts, to ensure the correctness of the changes.
The insurer has chosen the automated solution with Delta’s tools and was able to avoid the problems of a manual approach.
Usage of the Delta AMELIO family
To solve the task, Delta suggested a multi-level approach with the following elements:
- Code clean-up
- Replacement of VORELLE
- In-depth source analyses
- Refactoring
- Re-documentation
- Workshops for the knowledge transfer
Analysis and clean-up of the sources
During the first step, the AMELIO toolset was configured regarding the customer-specific programming styles, name conventions, etc. General clean-ups, like the removal of redundant code and the standardisation of syntax variants, were implemented by using the AMELIO CleanUp-Factory.
The analysis with AMELIO Logic Discovery identified what the application does and how it works. From these analysis results Delta derived suggestions for a tailor-made refactoring. These suggestions, as well as other requirements of the customer, were evaluated and coordinated in close cooperation to build the customer-specific factory.
With this tailor-made solution the refactoring was performed in an audit-proof way.
Workshop for the knowledge transfer
The results of the analyses and the refactoring were presented in a workshop and thus new employees were trained to work with the implementation of the screen control. Further possible improvements of the application were defined. The employees benefitted from the functionality of AMELIO Logic Discovery when implementing these improvements. They gained deep insight in the sources and were able to build their know-how about the application.
Final analysis and re-documentation
Finally, these sources were analysed again by AMELIO Logic Discovery and a documentation of the entire application was created automatically. With the help of this documentation and the interactive presentation in AMELIO Logic Discovery, first maintenance cases have been implemented quick and efficiently.
Highlights and benefits of the Delta solution
The clean-up and refactoring were performed by a factory specifically configured for this purpose:
- Automated - The changes were implemented automatically and without manual interventions. The strict process ensured that the results are always comprehensible and reproducible. In this way, efforts and risks of the project have been minimized.
- Audit-proof - All changes to the code have been documented automatically. The complete automation and the change log provide security for internal and external auditors.
- Tailor-made - The necessary code changes were agreed with the customer and adapted to his requirements and company policies.
- Documented - A documentation of the application was created automatically.
- Knowledge Building - The knowledge about the application and its functioning was regained.
- Without footprints, without vendor lock-in - No additional runtime components or new products have to be installed or licensed. In addition, third-party tools, such as the decision table generator VORELLE, could been removed.
- Short freeze phase - The development and maintenance of the application could be continued in parallel without hindrance.
- Minimal test effort - Using Meta-level testing, not all changed programs had to be tested, but only the change rules using a small test set.
Goal achieved …
The customer has managed to make his application fit for the future with little effort and low risk. With the gained experience it is now possible to decide how to make further (complex) applications fit for the future, while reusing the factory.
When will you make this step?
You have COBOL, PL/I or Delta ADS applications that have proven themselves and you want to make sure they are fit for the future?
Get in touch with us and find out what is possible with an automated approach.
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A large insurer has renovated a key component of its core application with the solutions from Delta Software Technology. Deltas AMELIO-Tools for automated analyses, code
clean-up and re-documentation ensure a future-proof application infrastructure as an easy know-how transfer to the application heirs.
2. Bedag Relies on Delta ADS on Visual Studio
Same Development Environment for Different Programming Languages
A uniform process control and development environment for the different programming languages is the goal of many enterprises. The Bedag Informatik AG modernizes its development environment and combines the (Viacar) development in C# and Delta ADS in a .NET framework under Microsoft Visual Studio.
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Bedag Relies on Delta ADS on Visual Studio
Bedag Relies on Delta ADS on Visual Studio
Same Development Environment for Different Programming Languages
The Bedag Informatik AG modernises its development environment and combines the development in C# and Delta ADS in a .NET framework under Microsoft Visual Studio.
A uniform process control and development environment for the different programming languages is the goal of many enterprises. Bedag Informatik AG (Bedag) has mastered this step, it unifies its development processes and thus ensures a more efficient and future-proof application development.
(Further) Development of Viacar
Bedag develops and maintains the Viacar application with the solutions from Delta Software Technology GmbH (Delta) for many years. Many business cases as well as different canton-specific requirements were developed and generated Viacar-wide with Delta ADS.
New parts of the application are developed in C# for .NET by using Microsoft Visual Studio. In order to avoid unnecessarily different processes and development environments, Bedag had the requirement to standardise its development of C# and Delta COBOL in one development environment.
Introduction of Delta ADS on Visual Studio
For this purpose Delta provided the plugin "Delta ADS on Visual Studio". After a successful test, Bedag opted for the use of the Delta ADS plugin under Visual Studio. Delta ADS programs can now be maintained directly in Visual Studio and the corresponding COBOL code is generated. In this way, control processes could be unified and coordinated.
By using a unique development environment as well as the seamless integration of the Delta ADS plugin, Bedag's developers do not have to switch between the development environments anymore. The provision of this uniform and modern user interface allows the efficient and future-proof development of the application.
About Bedag Informatik AG
With a revenue of more than CHF 100 million, Bedag is a leading Swiss IT service provider. Its 400 staff, including 27 trainees, ensure broad and sound IT expertise. Bedag’s core business is the development, maintenance and running of critical business IT solutions, and the company thereby guarantees economical and problem-free IT operations for its customers. Bedag has a strong regional presence, with a network of highly secure data centers, as well as sites in Berne, Aarau, Delémont, Geneva, Lausanne and Wettingen. Its customers are mainly public authorities and organisations, companies in the health and insurance sectors and UN organisations. Bedag was founded in 1990 and is owned by the Canton of Berne.
Viacar: The application for the Swiss Traffic Office
Viacar is a software system for traffic offices and is currently used by the six cantons Aargau, Luzern, Schaffhausen, Waadt, Zug and Zürich. The cantons manage therewith about 900 users and approx. 2.5 million vehicles and ships. At the Aarau location, Bedag and its team ensure the maintenance and further development of Viacar.
Go the way, too
If you want to standardise your development environment and processes under Visual Studio, we provide a trial version of the Delta ADS plugin.
If you don’t use Visual Studio, we also provide plugins for Eclipse as well as for IBM RDz, Micro Focus EDz, Compuware Topaz and other Eclipse-based development environments.
We would like to discuss with you the possibilities to optimize your development with Delta ADS.
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3. Computerwoche: IT Legacy – Dusty but Valuable
Legacy Modernisation Challenges IT Managers
Start-ups are lucky: They can build new systems without taking account of existing ones. But, some day a successful start-up will become a company with a grown IT structure. On invitation of the COMPUTERWOCHE, IDG’s weekly IT magazine in Germany, modernisation experts from seven companies discussed which problems can be solved and how.
Read the full online article of COMPUTERWOCHE ...
Computerwoche: IT Legacy – Dusty but Valuable
Computerwoche: IT Legacy – Dusty but Valuable
Legacy Modernisation Challenges IT Managers
Start-ups are lucky: They can build new systems without taking account of existing ones. But, some day a successful start-up will become a company with a grown IT structure. On invitation of the COMPUTERWOCHE, IDG’s weekly IT magazine in Germany, modernisation experts from seven companies discussed which problems can be solved and how.
The Roundtable
Dr. Daniela Schilling (CEO, Delta Software Technology) discussed in this round with representatives of Software AG, Deloitte Consulting, CA Germany, innoQ Germany, Capgemini and ConSol Software.
Read the complete online article from Karin Quack published in COMPUTERWOCHE from April 11, 2018:
https://www.computerwoche.de/a/legacy-modernisierung-fordert-it-manager-heraus,3544668
Go the Way With Delta Software Technology
We would be happy to discuss with you the different possibilities for modernisation. Just get in touch with us. Together we make your software future-proof.
This article was published in German by Karin Quack in the COMPUTERWOCHE in Germany on April 11, 2018 under the title “IT-Legacy – angestaubt, aber wertvoll: Legacy-Modernisierung fordert IT-Manager heraus“ and translated into English by Delta Software Technology.
The original article, as well as further links, can be found here.
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Legacy modernisation challenges IT managers
Start-ups are lucky: They can build new systems without taking account of existing ones. But, some day a successful start-up will become a company with a grown IT structure. On invitation of the COMPUTERWOCHE, IDG’s weekly IT magazine in Germany, modernisation experts from seven companies discussed which problems can be solved and how.
4. GI-Workshop: Software-Reengineering & Evolution
The 20th workshop “Software Reengineering & Evolution” of the GI section Software Reengineering (SRE) took place this year from 02 - 04 May 2018.
Delta Software Technology was represented there with two contributions:
- Live Demo: AMELIO Logic Discovery - "Do You Understand Your Software?"
- Presentation: Modernising Legacy Applications - "Everything New in Spring?"
Further information on the event and the presentation can be found here ...
GI-Workshop: Software-Reengineering & Evolution
GI-Workshop: Software-Reengineering & Evolution
The 20th workshop “Software Reengineering & Evolution” of the GI section Software Reengineering (SRE) took place this year from 02 - 04 May 2018. (GI – Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. is a German Society for Computer Science).
GI: 20th Workshop Software Reengineering & Evolution
02 - 04 May 2018, Bad Honnef, Germany
Delta Software Technology was represented there with two contributions:
- Live Demo: AMELIO Logic Discovery - "Do You Understand Your Software?"
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Many business-critical core applications have grown over decades. The necessary knowledge for a secure and efficient maintenance, further development and re-writing often doesn’t exist anymore. The size and complexity of the applications hardly allow a manual regaining of the knowledge. The only solution is: an automatic solution. That’s why AMELIO Logic Discovery regains the knowledge from COBOL and PL/I applications 100% automatically.
Read more- Presentation: Modernising Legacy Applications - "Everything New in Spring?"
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Many companies often regard legacy applications as a burden and their maintenance and further development as error-prone and cost-intensive. But re-writing the application is too expensive and too risky due to size and complexity. By cleaning-up, re-structuring and modernization this burden becomes a valuable legacy that can be efficiently and continuously used. With the tools from the AMELIO family these modernization steps can be executed tailor-made and automated. As a result, the effort
... Read moreOur speaker
Dr. Daniela Schilling
Dr. Daniela Schilling is Managing Director of Delta Software Technology.
Further Information
Further information on the event can be found here:
http://fg-sre.gi.de/wsre2018
You couldn't attend? Then contact us, we would be happy to meet you for a personal discussion.
5. New ADS Training Courses
Anyone using tools to automate software development needs in-depth knowledge of the methods, methods, and capabilities of the tools. And not just "in principle", but in relation to the concrete environment and task.
Our training courses and workshops help you to use Delta tools efficiently and to optimise the development of your applications: practice-oriented, taking into account your main focus.
ADS Basics - ADS for Administrators - ADS Refresher - ADS on Eclipse - ADS What's new
Here are the new training schedules:
New ADS Training Courses
New ADS Training Courses
Anyone using tools to automate software development needs in-depth knowledge of the methods, modes of operation, and capabilities of the tools. And not just "in principle", but in relation to the concrete environment and task.
Our training courses and workshops help you to use Delta tools efficiently and to optimise the development of your applications: practice-oriented, taking into account your main focus.
ADS Basics - ADS for Administrators - ADS Refresher - ADS on Eclipse - ADS What's new
Here are the new training schedules for the first half of 2018:
- 15.-17.05.2018 - ADS Basics
- 05.-07.06.2018 - ADS for Administrators
- 12.-13.06.2018 - ADS Refresher
- 19.-20.06.2018 - ADS on Eclipse
- 26.06.2018 - ADS What’s new
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Inhalt
- Insurer Makes Important Core Application Fit for the Future
- Bedag Relies on Delta ADS on Visual Studio
- Computerwoche: IT Legacy – Dusty but Valuable
- GI-Workshop: Software-Reengineering & Evolution
- New ADS Training Courses