The Anubex Migration Toolkit: Overview of Tools

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			Analysis Tool
			Maintenance Tool
			Conversion Tool

Anugen I/O
The ISAM to RDBMS toolkit for COBOL applications

Tool Name	Description	Category
XCOCO	XCOCO converts IO commands from COBOL programs, preparing them for interaction with the RDBMS connection libraries. This tool also creates configuration files with information on the primary and alternate keys and copybooks with file descriptions (FDs). This tool is used once to convert the applications and is not used after the upgrade. The tool is compatible with ANSI COBOL and several dialects like Micro Focus and X/Open CAE. Language extensions for other dialects like COBOL/370, and IBM VS COBOL can be integrated with the basic compatibility platform with ease.
IOGEN	IOGEN generates the performance optimisation libraries, 'create table' scripts (or dynamic PL/SQL packages) and a program to migrate the data from the ISAM files into Oracle through ASCII files. You can use IOGEN in the maintenance of the upgraded system, to regenerate the I/O modules automatically when changes to the database have been made.

WANG Migration Toolkit

Tool Name	Description	Category	Purpose
Anco	Anco analyses all your Wang applications, including the PACE database. The resulting report enables Anubex to accurately determine the size and complexity of your applications. With this information, Anubex determine the time scale, required resources and cost of the entire migration project. This results in an accurate tender.		Analysis
Coco	COCO is the Wang COBOL and HLI (Host Language Interface) converter. Each program is converted into its functional equivalent in Microfocus COBOL or PL/SQL. Therefore, COCO should be considered a source-to-source translator. COCO can also help you to upgrade from indexed or sequential files to the Oracle RDBMS: the complete data in files and data interaction can be converted into Oracle tables and I/O modules for the database interaction. When files contain screen descriptions, COCO converts them into input files for the KIWI tool, which will then convert them into Oracle Forms 6. Additional features (stripping down code for interpreting the structure, generating screen paint files to assist in the redevelopment of the GUI, indenting of the code…) complete the COCO functionality. Once migration is finished, you do not need COCO anymore. The converted files are ready for maintenance through the FPP tool included in the Migration 350 suite.		Code Conversion
FPP	FPP is the Falcon Preprocessor. You have to use it in the migration process towards Microfocus COBOL and PL/SQL. FPP has a very specific and limited task. It just expands the special FPP directives used in intermediate COBOL and PL/SQL files. This avoids typing and maintaining lengthy lists of all fields in a table to select, insert or update records.After migration, FPP becomes a maintenance tool: together with the APPL++ tool, it enables you to perform maintenance on your application and interaction with the Oracle database in a way very similar to the PACE environment. Using FPP and APPL++, you can implement changes in the application database without manually changing the source code.		Preprocessing
KEA	KEA converts Wang VS Screen Sets into Oracle Forms Release 6. The migrated forms offer the same functionality. In addition, the template used, offers considerable leverageing: features like saving queries and exporting data to Microsoft Excel are available on every migrated form after the automated conversion.		Screen Conversion
KIWI	KIWI converts Wang COBOL screens into Oracle Forms Release 6. This tool uses the same form template as the KEA tool, resulting in consistency among all migrated forms.		Screen Conversion
APPL++	APPL++ generates support packages, triggers and include files for the migrated application and database. It contains and manages the business rules and the referential integrity. This tool complements the standard Oracle tools, with user-friendly features, formerly available in the PACE maintenance. APPL++ also enables the management of additional fields without changing the original tables. This feature is only useful for application databases that are deployed on different (customer) sites: every site can define additional fields but keeps the option to upgrade the common core of the database.		Application Maintenance
REKEA	REKEA enables you to maintain all the migrated Oracle forms. Main features are modifications to the form components (canvases, datablocks, items, parameters, program units, libraries, triggers and visual attributes) and the form size. The power of Rekea lies in its batch processing: you can apply any of the maintenance actions on a selection of the forms.		Forms Maintenance
DDTRIC	DDTRIC is the Anubex Data Dictionary trigger converter. It converts the PACE table conditions, relational expressions and virtual fields to PL/SQL. The input for DDTRIC comes from the dd__user schema.Once migration is finished, you will not need DDTRIC anymore. The converted triggers are ready for maintenance through the APPL++ tool included in the Migration 350 suite.		Code Conversion
SQL Splitter	SQL Splitter splits PL/SQL packages into smaller pieces. This is necessary when the size of a (migrated) package exceeds the maximum package size that Oracle can load. After migration, SQL SPLITTER becomes a maintenance tool.		Splitting PL/SQL packages
makefiles	MIGRATION 350 MAKEFILES is a set of standard 'makefiles' developed by Anubex. These 'makefiles' contain the statements (rules) that convert, pre-process, compile and link the source files for the migration. They refer to the commands of the other Migration 350 command line tools (such as COCO and FPP), the PROCOBOL compiler, COBOL compiler and COBOL linker. The content of the 'makefiles' is executed by the GNU Make program, implemented by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath. You can find the source files of GNU here.		Code Conversion Support
QAR	QAR converts PACE Queries and Reports to Oracle views and COBOL-based reports.		Report Conversion
Repository Generator	The Repository Generator extracts information on the PACE data dictionary and screens.		Report Conversion
dd__user menu	The dd__user menu provides support to the Oracle Repository (dd_user) configuration: The user can run the relevant scripts for loading data and print the relevant reports from a menu. The tool then marks these items as executed by the user.		Database and Screen Conversion
appl__user menu	The appl__user menu provides support to the Application database configuration: The user can run the relevant scripts for loading data and print the relevant reports from a menu. The tool then marks these items as executed by the user.		Database and Screen Conversion
Template form and Forms Library	Anubex have developed Oracle template forms and a forms library that the migration tools apply when converting to Oracle Forms. This technique ensures a consistent look and feel and enables consistency of new features - such as saved queries and export to Excel - in every migrated screen.		Screen Conversion

WANG VS Tools

Tool Name	Description	Category
Paceman	Paceman enables you to Query VS data files and PACE databases from within Windows. Paceman makes it possible for end-users to define and execute Paceman queries to a Wang VS database and store the results directly in spreadsheets, databases or other file formats that are accepted by the most common Windows applications. The Paceman also helps in the migration process, extracting table descriptions from the PACE database.
Pace Export	Pace Export enables you to load the data from the PACE database into the Oracle database. It uses the table descriptions created by Paceman to create the necessary queries and control files.

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