Fujitsu-based IT departments that are running a VME legacy mainframe environment (formerly ICL VME mainframe) usually face two unstoppable evolutionary forces:
1. The pressure to respond quickly to business change by enhancing or introducing applications that can make the organization more successful
2. Need to cut expenses of maintaining these mission critical applications in the VME legacy environment.
Most Fujitsu VME systems have been in place for over 25 years. While clearly a stable and powerful platform, both the platform and its most popular IDMSX database technology have serious limitations that keep organizations from having the agility necessary in the current business climate.
Increasing license fees drive the cost of the VME system higher—total cost of ownership (TCO) is typically higher than with modern platforms and databases.
Efficient, Automated Way to Migrate
BluePhoenix's solution for the ICL VME Mainframe is an efficient, automated tool to migrate from VME to Unix and Windows. These migration projects are generally somewhat complex due to the age and size of typical VME applications.
Features:
- Our Fujitsu VME solution migrates the complete environment including COBOL, Application Master, SCL, and data
- Our solution migrates VME’s popular database IDMSX to Oracle, DB2 UDB, or SQL Server
- Our solution gives true flexibility in mapping IDMSX schemas into RDBMS tables
- No black box delivered application is runtime free
- Supports mapping of alpha fields into SQL types (date and time, etc.)
- Allows customer specific options (naming convention changes, etc.)
- Creates a relational system that is readable, reliable, easy to maintain, and well documented