Legacy Modernization

The Legacy Modernization Challenge

Migrating legacy applications to new platforms often involves large, mission-critical applications with countless linkages and dependencies. Such linkages may be tied to other elements on the mainframe, but they could also connect to non-mainframe elements like distributed servers, APIs or databases.

Whether you’re moving your applications off the mainframe or you’re modernizing them in place, the risk of breaking something in a critical process is very real. This is made even more complicated by a lack of sufficient documentation or knowledge loss as SMEs retire.

Make Legacy Modernization Less Stressful

There are three things you can do to reduce the risk and stress of modernizing legacy applications: understand the environment, future-proof the applications with thorough documentation, and educate current and future employees working on the project.

One Solution for Multiple Challenges

SMART TS XL is a Software Intelligence® platform that helps teams perform faster and trouble-free modernization. It helps ensure smooth sailing through the entire project, from the initial evaluation to ongoing maintenance. It does this by helping you overcome modernization challenges.

Understand

  • Know what you have with an up-to-date asset inventory
  • Estimate project complexity and timelines with the help of reports that detail program difficulty, level of effort and estimated timelines
  • Perform accurate impact analysis across multiple platforms, subsystems and programming languages

Document

  • Document the logic flow of programs in an interactive graphic
  • Pinpoint a field and document its usage and movement in a COBOL program
  • Expand all referenced elements in COBOL programs and JCLs to show how they would look at run-time

Educate

  • Reduce the amount of time required to research and review unfamiliar programs
  • Make it easy to recognize and follow references between programs and other elements
  • Connect relevant documentation to the associated programs or application elements

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