Business Needs: As part of DaimlerChrysler's overall plan to advance to strategic and open technologies, they decided to move away from using IDMS. The product is approaching the end of its lifecycle, and DaimlerChrysler expected maintenance costs to rise. The company also wanted to establish the basis for J2EE, Cognos, and .NET connectivity.
IT needs: The primary objective was to protect the existing investment as the business logic inherent in the applications is still essential and supports key business processes.
Solution: BluePhoenix had to migrate one of DaimlerChrysler's mission critical applications, which includes more than 130 COBOL programs as well as JCL code, procedures, Assembler programs, copybooks, maps and schema. BluePhoenix implemented the project smoothly using a step-by-step approach. DaimlerChrysler was very pleased with the results provided by the automated transformation process.
The project was structured in two phases to increase its efficiency and provide a cost-effective solution in a timely manner. The project commenced with a full global assessment of all IT systems using IT Discovery, one of the BluePhoenix automated tools. Based on these results a BluePhoenix team of professional consultants finalized the baseline for the code conversion and database migration. These were performed using our automated DBMSMigrator solution that was adapted to DaimlerChrysler's IT requirements and business needs.
21 July 2004
- BluePhoenix Migrates Mission Critical Application for DaimlerChrysler |