The 24th Workshop "Software Reengineering & Evolution" of the GI specialist Group Software Reengineering (SRE) took place this year from May 2nd to 4th, 2022.
GI: 24th Workshop Software-Reengineering & Evolution
02.-04. May 2022, Bad Honnef, Germany
Dr. Daniela Schilling presented a concept and the solution as well as its utilisation by Delta's client RDW in order to make applications quickly and safely fit for the future at the 24th Software Reengineering & Evolution workshop of the German Informatics Society's (GI) special interest group on Software Reengineering (SRE):
"A Washing Machine for Software - Automated Clean-up of Technical Debts"
Abstract
RDW has been developing and maintaining vehicle management applications for more than 30 years. The applications work reliably, but over time technical debts have accumulated that make maintenance and further development difficult. The daily business as well as the size and criticality of the application do not allow a manual clean-up of the software. The solution of the problem: a washing machine that automatically cleans the software from the technical debts.
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RDW has been developing and maintaining its core business applications for over 30 years. The applications work reliably, but over time technical debts have accumulated that make maintenance and further development difficult. The daily business as well as the size and criticality of the application do not allow a manual clean-up of the software. The solu tion for the problem: a washing machine that performs an automated cleaning of the soft ware from its technical debts.
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Dr. Daniela Schilling
Dr. Daniela Schilling is Managing Director of Delta Software Technology.
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Further information on the event can be found here:
https://fg-sre.gi.de/veranstaltung/24-workshop-software-reengineering-evolution
You couldn't attend? Then contact us, we would be happy to meet you for a personal discussion.
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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.
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The 21th workshop “Software Reengineering & Evolution” of the GI section Software Reengineering (SRE) take place this year from 06-08 May 2019. (GI – Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. is a German Society for Computer Science).
GI: 21. Workshop Software-Reengineering & Evolution
06.- 08. May 2019, Bad Honnef, Germany
Delta Software Technology will be there with a lecture (08.05.2019 at 9am):
Technology Change - automatically and during operation
Je länger eine Anwendung lebt, desto größer ist die Wahrscheinlichkeit, dass sie verschiedene Technologien
für ein und die selbe Aufgabe enthält. Um die Wartbarkeit und Performance der Anwendung langfristig zu sichern, gilt es, diese Technologien zu konsolidieren. Mit einer regelbasierten Factory kann ein solcher Technologiewechsel erfolgreich im laufenden Betrieb durchgeführt werden.
Our 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/wsre2019
You couldn't attend? Then contact us, we would be happy to meet you for a personal discussion.
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.
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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.
The spring meeting 2018 of the working group “SOSXD zOS/390 (MVS)” took place on March 14th-16th 2018 in Kassel, Germany. The subject of this working group was the base operating system (z/OS) of the IBM mainframe including the system-related software. Further information about the working group can be found here.
On March 14th, Dr. Daniela Schilling (CEO, Delta Software Technology) and Hans Nickessen (Senior Consultant) presented a lecture on “AMELIO: Spring-clean your COBOL- and PL/I Applications – Make your Applications fit for the Future” (‘Application Management’ in the agenda).
COBOL and PL/I applications form the backbone of the IT landscape in many companies until now. These applications are 30-40 years old and have proven themselves during this period. But within this time the applications were alive. They got continuously enhanced and forced to be adapted to changing environments and new requirements more quickly. That’s why in many companies the question arises how these long time investments can be secured and how to avoid that the legacy applications will become a cost-intensive brake pad.
In our presentation we showed you how …
- the knowledge about the applications can be regained and transferred to new generations of developers
- the applications can get rid of dispensable ballast
- the applications can be modernized or technologies can be changed
to make them fit again for the future. And all this 100% automated and with no effect on running operations and regular maintenance.
Further information about the event can be found here.
You couldn't participate? Please contact us. We would like to talk to you in a personal discussion.
Further information about AMELIO can be found here.
Presentation documents
The lecture "AMELIO: Spring-clean your COBOL- and PL/I Applications” can now be found on SlideShare...
GSE Working Groups
The Guide Share Europe (GSE) is a non-profit association of companies, organisations and individuals who are involved in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) solutions based on IBM architectures. GSE is an effective forum supporting the needs of today's ICT professionals.
For more information on GSE please visit www.gse.org
The working groups of the Guide Share Europe provide a platform for the exchange of practical experience in all aspects of IT. The information enables the members to ensure the effectiveness of their installations, to make sound decisions in a well informed manner and to influence the product development of IBM and its partners.
The working group BSMSD IMS-System Management (BSMSD IMS-Systemverwaltung) deals with the database system IMS, with an emphasis on the Transaction Manager and the organization of operation procedures. The next meeting of the working group is aligned this time by the LVM insurance and will take place in Münster.
- GSE: Spring meeting 2016 – study group IMS System Management
April 14 and 15 2016, Münster, Germany
We are particularly pleased that we are allowed to introduce ourselves. Delta Software Technology presents on April 14 at 1:50 pm:
"Successful ways to replace IMS databases"
The replacement of the IMS databases is currently on the agenda of many companies - for good reasons:
Waning expertise and outdated database technology lead to high costs and make it difficult to use modern technology for centralized IT applications. This applies not only to network systems but also to the high-performance IMS database systems.
Increased effort arising through parallel use of various database technologies and additional necessary processes (ETL), and ensuring data consistency, lead to enormous costs. It lacks the flexibility of relational databases for quick, unrestricted accesses to the data. The expertise of the implemented applications written in COBOL and PL/I dwindles as well as the necessary technical expertise of IMS. The connections with new technologies (mobile, cloud, etc.) are difficult.
Though, the obstacles to the replacement of IMS databases and the consolidation of the data are enormous: The mainly business-critical applications have evolved over decades, and are very large and complex. The existing documentation is not suitable for such projects. The modernized applications must be as performant as the original IMS applications.
The modernization of the applications can be automated by using the tools of Delta Software Technology. Delta Software Technology presents a current project taking benefit of the automatic application transformation to replace IBM IMS/DB. Discuss with Delta about safe ways how to preserve the functionality and performance of your applications and switch without risk to relational systems.
Our Presenter
Dr. Daniela Schilling
Daniela Schilling is CEO at Delta Software Technology.
Replacement of IMS databases with Delta
We are looking forward to welcoming you at the next conference of the GSE Working Group "IMS-System Management". You will find all the documents about registration here.
You don’t have time to meet us in Münster? Contact us, we would like explain the concept in a personal conversation.
More information can be found here: "Automatically replacing IBM IMS/DB"
GSE Working Groups
GSE is a non-profit association of companies, organisations and individuals who are involved in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) solutions based on IBM architectures. GSE is an effective forum supporting the needs of today's ICT professional.
For more information on GSE please visit www.gse.org
Please find further information on GSE Working Groups and the meeting agenda here.
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CGI Germany selects Delta Software Technology as partner for the modernization project at BSQ Bauspar AG.
BSQ Bauspar AG plans to migrate its core application package. The project includes also the migration of the complete infrastructure. Particular attention will be paid to the transformation of the database management system IMS/DB to a relational database management system. CGI Germany was chosen as general contractor for this modernization project. Delta will provide the
... Read moreThe working groups of Guide Share Europe provide a platform to exchange practical experience in all aspects of IT. The information enables the members to ensure the effectivity of their installations, to make well-informed decisions and to influence product development by IBM and its partners.
The AADLD – Application Development Languages working group of GSE European Working Group is the place to exchange experiences with higher programming languages as PL/I, COBOL or C. The next meeting will be held in Münster (Germany) and is organised by LVM Versicherungen.
- GSE: ADL Guide
05. – 07. October 2015, Münster, Germany
We are pleased to have been invited to present you our way of gaining a better understanding of legacy applications and thereby to significantly ease their maintenance and modernisation.
On 7th October at 9:00 am Delta Software Technology presents:
AMELIO Logic Discovery – Understanding PL/I-Applications
The bulk of today’s productive PL/I applications have been developed many years or even decades ago. Only in very rare cases the original designers and developers are still in charge. Usually, their successors (“inheritors”) or external service providers are maintaining and modernizing the applications or working on the re-implementation of their functionality in modern languages.
In these cases it does not suffice to retrieve details or to track single fields. Quite the contrary, it is about getting a detailed and full comprehension of the application in its entirety. The older and the more complex the applications are, the more knowledge about the applications is already lost. It gets more and more difficult to really understand the applications.
- How do you obtain reliable information on the current implementation, about the inner structure of the COBOL and PL/I applications, about contexts and dependencies?
- How do you identify code that’s no longer necessary, i.e. dead code, dead data definitions, not only within single programs but across complex Copy Book, macro and include hierarchies?
- How do you get a clear view on the code structures, on the logical connections of procedures, on endlessly cascades conditions?
- How do you distinguish framework coding form business logic?
In our presentation we will conceptually address these questions and show how we implemented the concepts in out tool AMELIO Logic Discovery. AMELIO Logic Discovery helps you to better understand and securely modernise your PL/I applications, allows you to recognize patterns and to perform focused analyses, it can be perfectly tailored to your needs.
Our Presenter
Dr. Daniela Schilling
Daniela Schilling is CIO at Delta Software Technology.
Martin Herbst
Martin Herbst is chief architect at Delta Software Technology.
GSE European Working Group “Application Development Languages” with Delta
We are glad to welcome you on the GSE European Working Group “Application Development Languages”. Discuss with us, how to automatically analyze PL/I applications, to rediscover the contained knowledge and to minimize the risk for a modernization.
You don’t have time to meet us in Münster? Contact us, we would like explain the concept in a personal conversation.
GSE Working Groups
GSE is a non-profit association of companies, organisations and individuals who are involved in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) solutions based on IBM architectures. GSE is an effective forum supporting the needs of today's ICT professional.
For more information on GSE please visit www.gse.org
Please find further information on GSE Working Groups and the meeting agenda here.