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Real World Advice: Handling Mainframe Field Expansion
Mainframe field expansion is an inevitability of legacy systems. Here’s some real-world advice on hidden risks and gotchas- and how to avoid them.
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Tweak Your MIPS: Getting Smart About Mainframe Cost Reduction
Offloading high MIPS consuming workloads onto less costly systems can drive down costs without driving up risk.
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How Compliance is Driving Application Modernization
As COBOL resources disappear, companies are confronting a new risk equation: compliance vs. application modernization.
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Money For Nothing: Why Legacy Modernization Projects Fail
Modernizing legacy platforms from old languages like COBOL is all about managing risk. Here are some Best Practices for getting ahead of the game and avoiding common mistakes.
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Legacy Modernization Scope Creep: Tips for Avoiding A Silent Killer
Pratik Dalal, one of our most experienced project managers, stopped by to give us some tips on how you can avoid deadline delay and budget shortage associated with scope creep.
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Automated COBOL Conversion with COBOL-to-Universal
COBOL-To-Universal is a software package that Modern Systems uses when transforming mainframe-based legacy applications to object-oriented java or C#. It was developed in-house and is always […]
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IMS Conversion – A Technical Snapshot
Modern Systems’ IMS conversion services include the generation of a new relational database to replace the functionality and content of the pre-relational source. The new target relational database can reside on or off the mainframe, and can use any of the standard relational database management systems (Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, or IBM DB2). Our solution includes the conversion and migration of the IMS database design and of the data within the databases. The resulting databases are fully relational and native to the target DBMS and environment.
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Mainframe Assessment Reduces Modernization Risk
Understanding business logic, technical inventory and use cases is critical for successful COBOL code modernization.
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