Peter Peto, Author at FreeSoft

FreeSoft named again in ISG Provider Lens, Mainframes – Services and Solutions 2024

ISG Provider Lens^TM for Mainframes – Services and Solutions assesses service providers that modernize mainframe applications for the cloud and those that offer mainframe outsourcing and MFaaS. It also evaluates automation tool vendors for refactoring, rehosting, replatforming, rewriting and reengineering applications.

FreeSoft has been recognized as product challenger by its comprehensive modernization offering in the Mainframe Application Modernization Software focus area of the report. FreeSoft develops and delivers various legacy migration and modernization services for enterprise clients to move to cloud-ready and cloud-native deployments. More …

FreeSoft recognized as PRODUCT CHALLENGER in ISG Provider Lens™ report for “Mainframes — Services and Solutions” 2023 USA and Europe

Information Services Group (ISG), a leading global technology research and advisory firm has published its ISG Provider Lens™ research for Mainframes — Services and Solutions for 2023.

The ISG Provider Lens™ for Mainframes — Services and Solutions 2023 USA and Europe compares provider strengths, challenges, and competitive differentiators in five different quadrants:

Mainframe Application Modernization Software
Mainframe Modernization Services
Mainframe Application Modernization and Transformation Services
Mainframe as a Service
Mainframe Operations

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DOAG 2022 Conference + Exhibition

Come and join us at the DOAG 2022 Conference + Exhibition 21-22 September. As one of the sponsors, it’s our pleasure to see you at our booth #330 anytime or meet our staff on our sponsored session 12:00 PM 22 to hear about a customer case of automated Mainframe ADABAS/Natural conversion to Oracle/Java platform.

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Testing: Why test automation is a critical element of legacy transformation projects

Everything you know about application testing applies for legacy transformation projects, from unit tests to black/white box testing, test plan, et cetera… And when you are done with all these comes the hard part: proof of identity.

In order to understand testing in a legacy modernization project we have to understand how automated language conversion and modernization works and in which step testing takes place.

Application transformation is an iterative process. We take the legacy code, analyze, and parse it, convert to Java, build, test and when some tests don’t pass, we modify the conversion engine. The process looks like this.

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Language Conversion: Code Quality

We all know what code quality is. Mostly. Though we may have slight differences when we should tell if a certain piece of code is of good quality. Certain aspects we can measure, some other aspects call for aesthetical judgement or simply gut feelings. We can have rules and policies that developers must obey but I could not find one single document that exactly tells what good quality code looks like.

My own approach to score quality would revolve around how well a developer can communicate ideas to another developer who needs to read the code. This includes readability, concise and accurate comments, using meaningful names, code organization, layout on the surface, and proper componentization throughout the whole hierarchy of the application, clear interfaces and dependencies in the deep. Inherently the code must be performant and free from flaws (bugs, vulnerabilities). An application code on its own level must be self-documenting to achieve the above.

We at FreeSoft are in the language conversion business; for example, Cobol in, Java out. We’re talking about Cobol some guys wrote 20-30 years ago. I am not going to score these code pieces, but let’s take a look at what we can tell about the Java we create.

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Successful Go-live after Mainframe ADABAS/Natural core banking system conversion to Java

After a full-scale Mainframe ADABAS/Natural conversion project and final UAT our European customer has also completed the go-production phase with its converted core banking system in Java successfully. The conversion project results, and the go-live process has been approved by The Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin).

The legacy environment is a typical core banking system with various on-line applications for clerks, batch processing for scheduled maintenance of customers’ financial records in a highly secured environment, comprising 6 million LoC Natural sources, 650 ADABAS files, 7.000 JCLs and hundreds of batch schedules that all have been automatically converted to Java and Oracle on open system. More …

The Tale of Automated Business Rule Extraction

The promise of automated business rule extraction (BRE) from legacy systems and re-use in Business Rule Engines has been here with us for decades. Without killing the joke, we can safely assert, this has – similar to other promises of complex information processing solutions e.g., automated language translations, – always been just a few years away.

What is BRE?

Business rule extraction is a process of analyzing a piece of legacy application and creating a description of “what it does”. The “what” part includes context, use cases, functionality, data being processed, interactions, I/O, computational formulae, boundaries, constraints, etc. Everything that is necessary to be able to reproduce the exact functionality in its entirety in a new environment.

The output of such an endeavor is in any format, usually diagrams and plain English, as formal as possible. As if it was a system plan to begin with.

These business rules take on their meaning when they become part of business processes.

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FreeSoft recognized as PRODUCT CHALLENGER in ISG Provider Lens™ report for “Mainframes — Services and Solutions” 2022 Europe

Information Services Group (ISG), a leading global technology research and advisory firm has published its ISG Provider Lens™ research for Mainframes — Services and Solutions for 2022.

The ISG Provider Lens™ for Mainframes — Services and Solutions 2022 Europe compares provider strengths, challenges, and competitive differentiators in five different quadrants:

Mainframe Application Modernization Software
Mainframe Modernization Services
Mainframe Application Modernization and Transformation Services
Mainframe as a Service
Mainframe Operations

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FreeSoft becomes an AWS Select Consulting Partner

We are proud to announce that FreeSoft have been recognized as an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Select Consulting Partner to provide exceptional knowledge and support for AWS.

FreeSoft develops and delivers a variety of legacy migration and modernization services to the legacy user community. Our focus is the high-platform systems like Mainframes with COBOL, PL/I, Natural/ADABAS, VSAM, JCL, etc. We can assist you with transitioning your mission critical applications to modern technology platforms with a particular emphasis on technology stacks like Java, SQL, NoSQL, cloud.

Cloud based infrastructures are an emerging construction for agile organizations, because they can lower costs and speed up the development process itself using cloud computing feature. FreeSoft is dedicated to provide the latest and best database and application modernization solutions to its clients and joining the AWS Partner Network is supporting this approach.

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