Webinar IBM IMS/DB Replacement: Exchanging Experiences with Gothaer and Provinzial

You probably know all the good reasons to replace your IMS databases:

• Reduction of cost and maintaining multiple database technologies
• Lack of flexibility of IMS databases
• Diminishing know-how and specialists
• No successors available
• Difficult connection with new technologies like Mobile Cloud etc.

The hurdles for replacing IMS-databases are huge and the applications are running smoothly. These, often mission critical, applications are big, complex and the documentation is in most cases not sufficient for the task ahead.

From hierarchical to relational - 100% automated

The aim is to convert the application to clean SQL, i.e. not to "translate" the IMS accesses to SQL at runtime using a proprietary intermediate layer. The customised, fully automated transformation with AMELIO Modernization Platform guarantees the consistent and audit-proof migration of your COBOL and PL/I applications.

How can you replace your IMS system safely and efficiently?

Delta Software Technology presented a reliable solution that gives you the following advantages:

• You are supported in defining the new relational data model.
• The transformation is carried out securely and completely automatically - with automatic integration of the changes from the parallel ongoing development.
• The testing effort is drastically reduced thanks to the complete automation of all changes.
• There is no footprint and no vendor lock-in.

Review of the Webinar

We were able to win Gothaer Solutions GmbH and Provinzial Versicherung AG for this webinar. The participants took the opportunity to ask their questions directly to the companies' experts who have already successfully replaced their IMS databases.

Dr. Daniela Schilling (CEO, Delta Software Technology GmbH) presented the Delta solution AMELIO:
"Automated and Secure Migration from IBM IMS/DB to Db2 with AMELIO Modernisation Platform"

In the subsequent discussion, experts from Gothaer and Provinzial were on hand to answer questions from the audience. They reported that production and development continued undisturbed and that the migration project ensures the maintainability and future viability of the systems. Processes have been standardised and, thanks to targeted and, of course, automatically implemented optimisation of the access logic, individual applications now run even more efficiently than with the hierarchical database system.

When asked what they would do differently next time, both customers agreed: less testing and no more manual migration! This would save them even more time, money and nerves, because Delta's automated solution simply works.

Slides and Recording of the Webinar

You couldn't attend?
No problem: you can request the presentation slides and recording here.
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We would be happy to show you the possibilities that AMELIO Modernisation Platform offers you for your projects. We look forward to hearing from you.

Are you looking for further information?
Then you will find the relevant reports here:

Gothaer migrates its IBM IMS Databases to IBM Db2 together with Delta Software Technology

Gothaer Systems migriert zusammen mit Delta mehr als 400 IMS-Datenbanken zu Db2. Durch den Aufbau einer passgenauen Factory konnten notwendige Schritte zur Transformation automatisiert, gut kalkuliert und risikoarm durchgeführt werden.

„By migrating from IBM IMS/DB to IBM Db2 together with Delta, we have successfully mastered the next big step in the ‘Smarter Mainframe’ project.“
Burkhard Oppenberg, CIO, Gothaer

Read here the success story:
https://delta-software.com/link.php?en=0314

From IBM IMS/DB to Db2 - Provinzial realizes complete Migration

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.

"The guaranteed operational “smoothness” in the project, despite the complex modernization, is certainly a unique feature of the solution.“
Stephan Kaiser, Program ‘sponsor’ Provinzial

Read here the success story:
https://delta-software.com/link.php?en=0329

Coming Soon: Delta ADS Generation for the Java Target System P3/COBOL

Existing IT applications are often a company's most valuable software assets, setting it apart from its competitors. One of today's greatest challenges is therefore to expand a company's technology base without having to give up decades of valuable development work.

So how do you bring your COBOL applications generated with Delta ADS into the modern world quickly and securely? It's simple! To make it easier for you to integrate your Delta ADS applications into your Java environment, Delta Software Technology made the Delta ADS development system available for the EasiRun P3/COBOL compiler.

Delta ADS for COBOL

Delta ADS for COBOL is one of the most successful development systems for operational backend applications in COBOL. The sophisticated and comprehensive generator technology enables the automated creation of platform-independent online and batch applications in COBOL. This automated generation of standardised, optimised and correct code

• speeds up development by providing tools for recurring standard sequences in the program logic and for function types/groups,
• ensures quality and drastically reduces the testing effort,
• ensures vendor independence on the one hand by dispensing with interpretative runtime components and on the other hand by separating application logic and platform-specific implementation for operating systems, data storage systems and TP monitors.

Our customers have realised extremely large applications with Delta ADS: With hundreds of thousands of programs and billions of lines of code (LoC) generated. Development with Delta ADS is characterised by a high degree of abstraction and automation. It is stable, reliable and extraordinarily efficient.

EasiRun P3/COBOL

P3/COBOL was developed for the transition from COBOL to Java. P3/COBOL is a system that is completely based on Java and compiles the COBOL applications into Java source code. No native C or C++ add-ons are required. P3/COBOL relies on pure Java functions for performance optimisation, so you don't have to leave the current JVM.

P3/COBOL is a proven technology that generates 100% Java code.

Delta ADS for P3/COBOL

We developed Delta ADS for the new target system P3/COBOL in close cooperation with our partner EasiRun. This enables special optimisations of the code generation that take into account the specific features of the P3/COBOL compiler.

Delta ADS for P3/COBOL enables you to integrate your Delta ADS applications comfortably and securely into your Java runtime environment. These are the advantages for you:

• You keep your efficient application development with Delta ADS while compiling the generated COBOL code to a Java source with P3/COBOL.
• You quickly and safely bring your proven Delta ADS applications into your Java runtime environment.
• You have the possibility to embed native Java code directly into the Delta ADS sources.
• You benefit from a proven technology that creates 100% Java code.

Delta ADS for P3/COBOL offers you the highest level of security on your way to Java and supports you in quickly placing your applications in a modern world.

Integrate your Delta ADS applications easily into your Java environment

Do you also want to integrate your Delta ADS applications seamlessly and securely into your Java environment? We would be happy to take your requirements and wishes into account in our new solution. Please contact us directly!

E-mail This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or phone +49 2972 97190

EasiRun + Delta = A Successful Partnership

"The companies EasiRun and Delta have maintained a successful and project-proven partnership for many years and we are pleased to continue this partnership with the new project," says Dr. Daniela Schilling, CEO Delta Software Technology. Don Fitzgerald, CEO EasiRun Europe, confirms: "Delta convinces with the experience of more than 45 years and a multitude of successfully implemented modernisation projects."

EasiRun is both a provider of tools and consulting services with a focus on application modernisation and transformation, as well as a solution provider in the areas of mainframe, Java, .NET and COBOL (Linux, UNIX, Windows) and cloud. The portfolio offers, among other things, Eclipse IDEs, COBOL transpilers, data storage and web browser solutions, analysis services as well as automation and integration for the individual needs of the customers.

Delta Software Technology offers tools and custom-fit solutions for

• automated application generation for all platforms (OS, DBMS, TP monitor, compiler)
• automated application analysis and knowledge discovery
• automated clean-up to get rid of technical debts
• automated application migration, transformation and modernisation

Large companies use Delta solutions to develop their proven individual IT applications securely and sustainably and make them fit for the future. They thereby reduce the costs and risks for the maintenance, modernisation and re-implementation of their applications and gain flexibility, freedom of decision and security.

YOUPLUS Unifies its Development Environment and Updates Delta ADS

A modern development environment was the goal for the software developers of YOUPLUS Assurance Schweiz AG. Together with Delta Software Technology, the previous development environment was replaced by ADS on Eclipse and at the same time the generator system Delta ADS for COBOL was updated.

In 2020, YOUPLUS Assurance Schweiz (YOUPLUS) acquired an insurance portfolio from AIG Life Insurance Switzerland Ltd., Breganzona and at the same time another part of AIG - American Security Life Insurance Company Ltd in Vaduz, Switzerland.

In 2023, YOUPLUS has started its operation in a new company providing solutions for the tied pension 3a and the cost-free pension 3b, which combines unique investment logic with client's personal pension objectives.

YOUPLUS Group is now active in eight European countries. It specialises in Life & Pension solutions and is considered as one of the fastest growing insurance companies in Europe.

The insurance company YOUPLUS Lugano, Switzerland, insurance company successfully uses the generator system Delta ADS for COBOL & PL/I (ADS) from Delta Software Technology (Delta) for more than 30 years. At YOUPLUS, the ADS programs are developed and maintained on the PC and then generated exactly fitting in COBOL. The programs are then executed on IBM z/VSE.

Update to the Latest ADS Release

In the first step, ADS was updated from an outdated version to the latest version (6.6.2). For this, only the individual generators had to be updated and standard macros hat to be checked and adapted if necessary. Delta is skilled at this task and brings the appropriate know-how for the secure modernisation.

In order to provide the developers with a modern and uniform development environment, the Delta development system SCOUT² was replaced by ADS on Eclipse (Delta IDS). The use of Delta ADS on Eclipse has the advantage that it can be directly integrated in all Eclipse-based environments. In this case, the plugin was integrated into the OpenText (Micro Focus) development environment.

More Effective Maintenance and Development

With the help of ADS on Eclipse, the working method for developing and maintaining ADS programs is simplified and modernised so that developers are optimally supported. The use of the Post-generation Debugger makes maintenance much easier, simpler and faster. With it, the generation process can be followed step by step. This makes it much easier for the developers and also the application inheritors to get a handle on the ADS programs.

The development and generation processes of ADS programs were seamlessly integrated into the customer’s development environment. Thus, YOUPLUS could be provided with a uniform and integrated solution.

You Too Can Follow This Way

Do you also want to provide your developers with a modern and integrated development environment? Then contact us! Our modern and integrated development solution Delta IDS is available for many environments, e.g. ADS on Eclipse Eclipse-based development environments, as ADS on Visual Studio for Microsoft Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code. In addition, active Delta customers receive the upgrade to the latest Delta ADS version free of charge.

You can also go this way and simplify the maintenance and development of your Delta ADS applications - your developers and their application heirs will be grateful.

More about ADS and Delta IDS

You would also like to upgrade your ADS installation and know how you can easily integrate your application development with ADS into your PC-based environments? Then get in touch with us.

Support Information: New Product Updates Available

We have implemented your suggestions and further improved our products. The following product releases are now available for you:

Delta ADS 6 for COBOL (6.6.3)

In the new release Delta ADS 6.6.3, we have implemented a number of corrections and, above all, improvements in the Post-Generation Debugger. With the Post-Generation Debugger, you can significantly accelerate the maintenance of your Delta ADS applications by quickly and accurately following the generation process.

We have also implemented further improvements in the area of generating Data Access Servers for the object-based database integration (Delta DBI).

Delta ADS 6.6.3 is now available for all platforms.

AMELIO Logic Discovery (2.4.1)

In the new release of AMELIO Logic Discovery 2.4.1 we have, besides some corrections, further optimised the navigation. With our innovative analysis tool for COBOL, PL/I and Delta ADS applications, you can now find the relevant knowledge and the corresponding locations in the code even faster.

Benefit from the Improvements Now

Simply request the new product releases now directly here.

Curious? Get to Know our AMELIO Product Family!

You don't know AMELIO yet? We would be happy to introduce you to our innovative tools for the automated software evolution:

• AMELIO Logic Discovery for easy (re-)understanding.
• AMELIO CleanUp - our Washing Machine for agile cleanup
• AMELIO Modernization Platform for fully automated modernisation

See for yourself how you can make your backend applications fit for the future securely, perfectly fitting and in parallel with ongoing development.

Please send us a message via our website or call us at +49 (0) 2972 97 19-0.

Software Reengineering & Evolution: Benefit from the Direct Exchange between Practice and Research

“Software Reengineering and Evolution” is an evergreen in software development. However, new technologies and possibilities in the area of development lead to ever new challenges in dealing with the existing software.

The expert group Software Reengineering and Evolution (SRE) within the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) - the German-speaking professional society for computer science - deals with all aspects of software reengineering, software maintenance and software evolution. In principle, this includes all activities whose goal is analysis, visualisation, evaluation, improvement, migration and further development.

Workshop Software Reengineering & Evolution (WSRE)

With the conference series Workshop "Software Reengineering and Evolution" (WSRE), the SRE expert group aims to bring together practice and research and to promote professional exchange with a variety of current topics.

Practitioners and researchers are cordially invited to report on experiences, projects, research results, methods, tools and “war stories” in this field at the WSRE, to present their current work and to discuss it constructively in an open environment.

Save the date for WSRE 2025

We are pleased to announce the next Workshop on Software Reengineering and Evolution (WSRE): 27. WSRE 2025 will take place from 09.-11.04.2025 in Bad Honnef!

Call4Papers

You would like to present your challenges or solutions and tools on the topic and exchange ideas with other interested parties? Anyone can take part - even if you are not a member of the GI.

• Contributions can be submitted until 14.02.2025.

Take the opportunity for direct exchange and networking. Participation is open to everyone. All information about the workshop and how to submit contributions can be found here.

WSRE 2024

The 26th Software Reengineering & Evolution Workshop of the GI Software Reengineering (SRE) specialist group took place on 29 and 30 April in Bad Honnef.

How to Quickly (Re-)Gain the Knowledge about Your COBOL Applications

At this year's tool session, Dr. Daniela Schilling, CEO of Delta Software Technology, presented:

‘When the English Dictionary is Not Enough - Understanding COBOL Applications with AMELIO Logic Discovery’

In order to (re)understand large, complex COBOL applications that have grown over decades, it is not enough to be able to read the code. Instead, it is necessary to abstract from technical details and gain knowledge at a glance. Appropriate views of the application are also required for various tasks. We present AMELIO Logic Discovery, a tool for automated knowledge (re)gain.

You couldn’t attend? No problem!
Contact us directly and find out how AMELIO Logic Discovery can help you to re-understand your COBOL applications.

Support Information: New Product Versions available

We have released new versions for the following products:

• Delta ADS for COBOL (6.6.1)
• PostgreSQL - New Target for ADS 6 for COBOL
• ADS on Eclipse (8.1.1)
• ADS on Micro Focus (8.1.1)
  
  

Delta ADS 6 for COBOL (6.6.1)

In this new release, we have implemented new functions and some changes. The generation has been further optimised.

PostgreSQL - New Target for ADS 6 for COBOL

Do you rely on PostgreSQL?
With Delta ADS release 6.6.0 we now offer you for this database system a new target for the generation of data services.

ADS on Eclipse (8.1.1)

With this new release you can now also define your own targets. The storage of the generation artefacts becomes more flexible. More information can be displayed in the console window and the navigation to the generator messages has been simplified. Furthermore, analysis data can now be created in MALIST format in addition to HTML format.

ADS on Micro Focus Enterprise Developer / Connect (8.1.1)

With this new release we support Micro Focus Enterprise Developer for Eclipse version 8. The installation of the basic components has been completely revised and simplified.
With this release you can now also define your own targets. The storage of the generation artefacts becomes more flexible. More information can be displayed in the console window and the navigation to the generator messages has been simplified. Furthermore, analysis data can now be created in MALIST format in addition to HTML format.

For more information about the new features and improvements, please see the respective release notes and reference books in the support area of our website.

Get information and updates right now. You’ll find the list of our current product versions here.

Let's meet Delta

COBOL and PL/I applications perform their service reliably every day. But the longer the applications live, the more dirt and technical debts accumulate in the applications, making maintenance and further development increasingly difficult and error-prone. Also, in the run-up to modernisation projects, it is advisable to clean-up applications in order to avoid errors and to reduce costs.

At the following events, we will report on how you can clean-up your applications in an agile way using a software washing machine:

• SVA Mainframe Dayz 2023 | 07.-08.03.2023, Wiesbaden (Germany)
• GSE Technical University - Mainframe Modernization | 20.-21.03.2023, Kassel (Germany)

By the way, the presented approach and technology is also perfectly suited for a safe, step-by-step modernisation of applications.

You cannot attend the events?
We would be happy to present the AMELIO Software Washing Machine to you in a personal meeting. Simply get in touch with us.

Iceberg Ahead: Hard to Port or Risk Minimization

Modernization of COBOL or PL/I applications

Changing large, productive IT applications is associated with high costs, risks and an enormous amount of time. The race in the areas of agility, adaptability, and the adoption of new requirements is becoming increasingly difficult. The costs for the maintenance and further development of the application are increasing. The productive lifetime of business functions is often measured in decades. Technologies, on the other hand, have a much shorter lifespan. For such transformation projects, you therefore need flexible tools that change your applications in a targeted manner - without endangering functionality and thus the important day-to-day business.

Our colleague Hans Nickessen reports in his text "Hard to Port or Risk Minimization" about how modernization contributes to cost reduction.

"Iceberg Ahead!" Here is the 4th part of the series:

Hard to Port or Risk Minimization - Reducing costs through modernization

Here you will find the first parts of the text series "Iceberg Ahead!":

• "Iceberg ahead: Assessment or how to assess and minimize the Risk of a Change" - (part 3):
  https://delta-software.com/link.php?de=6339
  
  
• "How you can successfully bring your COBOL or PL/I Applications into the Future without hitting an Iceberg" - (part 1) &
  "Knowledge Transfer - Securing, Re-understanding, Optimizing and Passing on the Foundation" - (part 2):
  https://delta-software.com/link.php?en=6335

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.-07.03.2025 and 17.09.-19.09.2025 - ADS Basics
• 12.03.-14.03.2025 and 25.09.-26.09.2025 - ADS for Administrators
• 20.03.-21.03.2025 and 09.10.-10.10.2025 - ADS Refresher
• 03.04.-04.04.2025 and 29.10.-30.10.2025 - ADS on Eclipse
• 08.04.2025 and 06.11.2025 - ADS What’s new
• 29.04.2025 and 13.11.2025 - Delta DETAB

Learn more about our trainings and workshops ...

Contact us to discuss your requirements for a customised training.

Our Highlights in 2022

The pressure to reduce costs and at the same time increase flexibility is a permanent companion of IT departments. For our customers, especially for banks and insurance companies, this has brought the consolidation of database systems into focus. Our reports on the successful replacement of old database systems such as IBM IMS therefore met great interest:

IMS Replacement at Gothaer: In Time – In Budget – In Scope

Automatically migrating from IBM IMS DB to IBM Db2 was Gothaer Systems' task. Delta offered a solution consisting of know-how, suitable tools and services for this task. The entire migration project (45,000 sources, 447 IMS databases) ran smoothly and without downtime. Above all, Gothaer was able to further develop the applications in parallel.

At Gothaer, the replacement of old technologies is another step in its 'Smarter Mainframe' strategy to modernise its IT landscape. The full integration of today's operational systems on the host - in the context of new projects - is immensely facilitated and contributes decisively to the digitalisation and the accelerated implementation of new functional requirements.

Click here to read the complete project report.

Provinzial achieves complete migration from IBM IMS/DB to IBM Db2 with Delta

With the tools and services from Delta Software Technology, Provinzial Rheinland managed the complete application and data migration from IBM IMS DB to IBM Db2 for more than 75 IBM IMS databases and over 36,000 artefacts in an automated and secure manner.

The migration from the extremely fast IMS databases, whose application programs are often precisely aligned with the storage structures, to the more flexible Db2 databases, which are suitable for ad-hoc queries, often leads to a loss of performance. Provinzial also feared this. However, due to the automated migration and the possibility to individually adapt the transformation rules, there were no performance losses. The specifications for the performance of the migrated applications were met to Provinzial's complete satisfaction.

Click here to read the complete project report.

Further Information

Old database technology causes high costs and makes it difficult to use new technologies for central and critical IT applications. Moreover, there are fewer and fewer developers and system engineers for the old technology. This is true for hierarchical databases like IBM IMS DB as well as for other non-relational databases.

We present ways to preserve the functionality of your applications and migrate to SQL databases without risk.

• Automatically replacing IBM IMS/DB
• Successfully Replace IMS Databases
• IBM IMS/DB? Modernization Now!
• Modernization Project at BSQ Bauspar AG

Let's talk about how to safely replace old database technology in your organisation.

IMS Guide - GSE AK IMS System Administration

97th IMS Guide - GSE AK IMS System Administration (Autumn Conference)

• Date: September 20-21, 2022
• Location: Munster, Germany

Daniela Schilling (CEO, Delta Software Technology) presented:

"DINO: From IBM IMS/DB to Db2 - Provinzial realizes complete Migration"

IBM IMS/DB to Db2 Migration? Completely? Automated?
Provinzial made the move along with Delta.
In our lecture we have shown you how "DINO: From IBM IMS/DB to Db2 - Provinzial realizes complete Migration" on September 20th on the IMS Guide in Munster.

More about the GSE working group: BSMSD - IMS System Administration

You can find more information about the success story here.

Update: You couldn't attend? Here are the presented slides:

AMELIO Logic Discovery - Procedures and Functions in COBOL

COBOL does not have procedures and functions.

Nevertheless, AMELIO Logic Discovery identifies logical procedures and functions in COBOL applications and thus helps to re-understand the application and to prepare a refactoring.

You can find more information here:

AMELIO Modernization Platform slashes Risks and Costs for Modernization and Migration

Changes across all existing applications belong to the permanent tasks of the IT departments in large enterprises. They are initiated by new IT strategies, changed business processes, legal regulations which must be met by given deadlines, and the like. If thousands of modules of the productive application systems have to be changed, the answers to the following questions are essential:

• How can you ensure the consistency and quality of the changes?
• How do you avoid blocking other projects by the changes?
• How do you integrate the changes from other projects into the mass changes?
• How do you guarantee the security and stability of the productive systems?
• How do you get the expenditure under control as well as the costs and the temporal organisation for testing?

AMELIO Modernization Platform drastically reduces the risks and costs of platform changes, application modernisations and database migrations because AMELIO completely automates the changes.

100% Automation with AMELIO Modernization Platform

AMELIO Modernization Platform is a perfectly tailored factory that completely automates extensive and complex changes of large applications – 100%.

• AMELIO changes the code consistently, reproducibly and absolutely error-free.
• AMELIO documents all decisions and changes audit proven.
• AMELIO supplies easily maintainable code for the further development.
• AMELIO enormously reduces the test expenditure.

The capabilities and the efficiency of AMELIO open up absolutely new possibilities for planning and conducting large projects.

• Project strategies can be verified with the entire volume.
• Other projects are not blocked.
• Transformation schedules can be selected at will, freeze periods are extremely short.
  
  

These are only a few of the advantages that AMELIO offers.
You can learn more about the AMELIO Modernization Platform on our Web site.

Latest Projects with AMELIO

IMS Replacement at Gothaer: In Time – In Budget – In Scope

Gothaer Systems migrates its IBM IMS Databases to IBM Db2 together with Delta Software Technology.

Automatically migrating from IBM IMS/DB to IBM Db2 was Gothaer Systems' task. The goal of operating only one database system on the mainframe brought Gothaer Systems and Delta Software Technology together. Delta offered the solution of know-how, suitable tools and services for this task. By building a tailor-made factory with the AMELIO Modernization Platform, the necessary steps for the transformation could be implemented automated, well calculated and at low risk.

“By migrating from IBM IMS/DB to IBM Db2 together with Delta, we have successfully mastered the next big step in the ‘Smarter Mainframe’ project.”
Burkhard Oppenberg, CIO, Gothaer Systems

Read here the Success-Story:
https://delta-software.com/link.php?en=6314

Provinzial realizes complete migration from IBM IMS/DB to IBM Db2 with Delta

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.

Due to the volume of the Provinzial application systems, the amount and complexity of the required changes, the tight schedule as well as their experiences with the manual conversion of some programs and databases, Provinzial decided on a tailor-made and fully automated solution with the tools from Delta Software Technology.

Read here the Success-Story:
https://delta-software.com/link.php?en=6329

RDW Removes Technical Debts using Delta’s Automated Solution

Existing applications have accumulated a lot of technical debt over the years. Removing it could speed up maintenance significantly. In reality the task of improve the software by removing the obsolete parts is seldom performed. The risk of introducing errors and the cost of testing is the biggest reason for not doing anything.

RDW has been able to take up the task of removing technical debt in a secure manner. Delta’s AMELIO Modernization Platform plays a key role in this endeavour.

You can find out more about the project here:
https://delta-software.com/link.php?en=6319

Large Financial Service Provider Succeeds in Secure Platform Change with AMELIO

Away from the Mainframe at the Push of a Button: Delta’s AMELIO Modernization Platform Enables Large Building Society to Replace Platforms Securely

A leading building society consolidates its platforms and has therefore replaced their IBM mainframe with Red Hat Linux. The migration of the central, strongly interconnected applications, however, involved particular risks, e.g., due to parallel changes and further development. Also, the performance in the new environment was a major concern. With the AMELIO tools from Delta Software Technology, this company successfully migrated its highly critical core application.

The project management particularly praised the good cooperation with the manufacturer. Delta offered the project at a fixed price and was nevertheless very flexible in responding to special requests. Due to the good cooperation with Delta, the transformed application exactly meets the company's requirements.

You can find out more about the project here:
https://delta-software.com/link.php?en=6320

You Would Like to Know More?

Please get in touch if you would like to know more about how the AMELIO Modernization Platform can help you to conduct changes to your applications securely, reliably, error-free and 100% automated. If you have large legacy applications in your organisation you certainly show know about the possibilities with AMELIO.

Iceberg Ahead ...

Your COBOL or PL/I applications contain enormous investments, a lot of company-specific know-how and decades of experience. Extensive knowledge about the application is necessary, if such an application should be be refurbished, refactored, modernized, transformed. A tailor-made assessment helps you to reliably evaluate the measures, procedures and risks of your modernisation project.

In the text series "Iceberg ahead", our colleague Hans Nickessen describes his experiences in handling legacy applications.

Read in the current episode how a tailor-made assessment contributes to the success of your modernisation project.

"Iceberg Ahead!" Here is the 3rd part of the series:

Iceberg ahead: Assessment or how to assess and minimize the Risk of a Change

A tailor-made assessment of your application offers the possibility of reliably determining the critical points and evaluating them precisely. This avoids the risk of your modernization projects getting out of hand in terms of budget and target date.

"Iceberg ahead!" here is part 1 & 2 of the series:
https://delta-software.com/link.php?en=6335