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Challenge
• 2 IBM Mainframes with 8,000 MIPS (Millions of Instructions per Minute)
• 230 applications
• Approximately 30 million lines of code
• Strong application dependencies
• Loss of domain knowledge (retirements)
• No defined application strategies

Solution
• Individual strategy for each application
• Well-secured and reproducible analysis results
• Transparency for the entire application environment
• Short project duration: 8 months
• Enables long-term IT modernizations 

• StART

Challenge
• Data migration from VSAM to Oracle
• 21 VSAM Files
• 4000 RMDS Files

Solution
• Individual strategy for each application
• EBCDIC <–> ASCII/UTF-8 challenge
• Automatic generation of 125 DB tables (based on COBOL Copy structures with redefinitions)
• Documentation of the process

• CREW

Challenge
• ~ 1200 IBM-Cobol Programs
• Many developers are retired
• Various Interfaces to other systems
• Expert Support required

Solution
• Expert Staffing by B+B
• Fast onboarding process at customer (onsite)
• Direct process enhancement (new IDE)
• B+B Application Support (SLA)

• CREW

Challenge
• 580 RPG Programs
• Loss of domain knowledge (retirements)
• Proprietary / Mainframe dependencies
• No/minimal support feasible
• Time pressure

Solution
• Automated RPG to Cobol Migration
• Iterative migration process
• Cobol code optimization
• Short project duration: 9 months
• Utilization of MF Enterprise Developer / Enterprise Server

• STarT

Challenge
• 175 AcuCobol Programs including screens
• Loss of domain knowledge (retirements)
• Replatforming
• Database migration

Solution
• Migration of AcuCobol system from HP3000 to Windows
• Migration of database to MS-SQL
• Ongoing maintenance and further development of the entire system in response to changing requirements

• TEAM

Challenge
• 3000 RM-Cobol Programs
• WOW GUI with custom Active X components
• Outdated LI-SQL Connector
• Need for connectivity (Web-Services)

Solution
• Encapsulation of business objects
• Packaging of business capsules into microservices
• Integration of RM with Visual Cobol due to the WOW-Retain strategy
• WebService Interface (REST) for COBOL Services
• COBOL@Docker

• MAST

Challenge
• 900 Acu/RM-Cobol Programsme
• Vision file system
• Need for modern integration of third-party services like credit card payment, flight booking

Solution
• Porting the application to Visual Cobol
• Introduction of REST and SOAP Cobol client connectors for third-party services
• Provision of REST server functionality
• Introduction of a new development methodology
• Intensive knowledge transfer 

• MAST