Newsletter March 2018

Don’t guess – Assess

Tailor-made application assessments enable you to pinpoint and to reliably evaluate all critical issues for your projects. They help you to accomplish your projects in the areas of modernisation, migration, mass changes and clean-up of your COBOL and PL/I applications successfully in time and in budget.

Do you want to change or modernize your COBOL or PL/I applications, to consolidate your IT landscape or to replace technologies? Do you want to make well-founded and reliable decisions for large change projects?

For more than 40 years, we are experts in the analysis and the modernisation of large and complex IT applications. Benefit from our decades of experience.

Our Service for You: Tailor-made Application Assessment

With our targeted analysis and a tailor-made assessment of your applications, we help you to reliably plan your projects and reduce the risks and costs of your project. For:

• Secure choice of the project strategy
• Realistic scheduling
• Reliable cost calculation
• Secure planning and implementation project
• Well-grounded selection of a suitable test strategy
• Comparison of technical alternatives
• Audit-proven realisation of the project

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Spring-cleaning for Your COBOL and PL/I Applications

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

New ADS (Refresher) 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

Learn more about our trainings and workshops ...

Current Product Versions – Plan Your Updates now!

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 6.2.0
• New: Delta ADS 6 for UNIX
• ADS on Eclipse 6.8.1
• License Management 2.6
• AMELIO Logic Discovery 1.5.0
• New: AMELIO CleanUp-Factory

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.