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Global Investment Company
A multi-billion dollar investment firm turns to Intellisys to automate the reverse engineering and migration of an AS400 COBOL transactional system to Java and PL/SQL
Intellisys' automation combined with a phased approach and subject matter expertise, accurately and rapidly transformed a critical legacy application into a modern system.
INDUSTRY
Finance
PLATFORM CAPABILITIES USED
Documentation and Optimization & Migration
SUCCESS METRIC
Transformation of COBOL to Java and PL/SQL within 10 weeks.
The Story
An American multinational financial services firm offers comprehensive investment and advisory services from individual investors to large corporations. In the company's efforts to reduce costs, they looked to modernize a legacy transactional system written in COBOL that was running on IBM's AS400 system. The modernization project required reverse-engineering of the COBOL application, optimization of the extracted meta-data, and then transformation of the optimized meta-data to Java and PL/SQL code using Oracle as a database. The client felt that the complete set of automated capabilities provided by Intellisys was the ideal solution to facilitate the migration while mitigating risks.
Problems
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A need to reduce maintenance cost of running a legacy application
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Modernization required reverse-engineering of the COBOL application and optimization of the meta-data before transformation to a modern system
Solution
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Intellisys platform documentation and optimization & migration capabilities
Results
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Extraction of meta-data from 151,000 lines of COBOL code in 2 weeks
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Analyzed and optimized the extracted meta-data in 4 weeks
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Automated transformation of code with 80% completion; manual completion for the remaining 20%
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Java with Hibernate 4.4.2 and Struts 1.1 framework
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PL/SQL for Oracle 12c
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Manual creation of test data and test case (no test cases and test data were available for source application)
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Documentation created for the new Java and PL/SQL application