Easytrieve was developed originally by Pansophic Systems many years ago as a 4GL query and reporting tool for IBM mainframes. It received significant use in business data reporting, and was purchased by CA in the early 1990s.
Nowadays, due to the dwindling number of experienced Easytrieve programmers and the high cost of
Easytrieve licenses, businesses are looking for ways to transition away from the use of the Easytrieve language, and yet leverage the tremendous investment they have made in their Easytrieve code base.
BluePhoenix’s Easytrieve to COBOL migration solution is a comprehensive, automated, and time-efficient solution that migrates Easytrieve programs to functionally equivalent COBOL programs.
Business Benefits
- Eliminates Easytrieve license and maintenance costs
- Makes application enhancement easier
- Provides cost-effective migration
- Eliminates the IT resources problem
- Enables using the existing and proven logic and investment, and modifying the application according to business needs
- Uses proven, automated tools, thereby mitigating many of the project risks
BluePhoenix’s Easytrieve solution maps each Easytrieve instruction to a corresponding fragment of COBOL code. All of the Easytrieve objects are mapped to COBOL variables that together simulate the original architecture.
The functionality of the original Easytrieve application is completely preserved during the Easytrieve to COBOL conversion.