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Platform Migration and Rehosting 

In an effort to deal with shrinking IT budgets and the increasing cost of maintenance, many organizations are looking to move away from the mainframe. The BluePhoenix™ PlatformMigrator for z/OS solution is a cutting-edge, high-efficiency set of tools that delivers all the benefits of automated migration, while leaving you in control throughout the process.

MVS (z/OS) Migration to Unix/Windows

BluePhoenix PlatformMigrator for z/OS provides a comprehensive solution for dealing with the many issues involved in migrating your z/OS applications to UNIX or Windows. In order to carry out the migration, BluePhoenix uses a combination of automated techniques for the various technologies that are involved.

• PlatformMigrator automatically migrates 3GL code based on legacy file systems such as VSAM and IMS DB, or legacy databases such as ADABAS or IDMS to make use of SQL Server in ORACLE, SQL Server or UDB while achieving the best performance balance of data normalization.
• PlatformMigrator automatically migrates 4GL code such as ADSO and NATURAL to more industry standards environments such as Java, C# and COBOL.
• PlatformMigrator recognizes the importance of batch in the z/OS environment automatically migrates JCL to scripting languages such as Perl to support ongoing batch execution of applications.

In addition, PlatformMigrator supports the migration of application data from numerous z/OS based file and database systems to the new ORACLE, SQL Server or UDB environments.

All of the migrations accomplished by PlatformMigrator are done natively with performance a key consideration. No black box code or emulation software is required, leaving you with a clean application able to be maintained using industry standard tools in your chosen destination environment.